What is recorded here
One of eleven granite grave slabs at Tully graveyard, this convex-faced stone lies partly buried three metres east of the church gable. It measures just over a metre long and thirty-seven centimetres wide, flat on the back but rounded on the front like a shoulder waiting to be touched. Whoever laid it there did so without ceremony we can now name, only with the certainty that death belongs to the living and the living must remember.
It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This slab lies partly buried c. 3m E of the church gable (DU026-023001-). The slab (L 1.06m, Wth 0.37m, T 0.17m) is flat on the back, but on the face is convex. (Swords 2009, 68, no. 77)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 May 2015
Early Christian gravestone, 7th–9th century; one of a small group of early Christian granite grave slabs in the Tully graveyard, reflecting the presence of an early monastic or burial site in the area.
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Places near here
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Tully Grave YardGraveyard · 25 yd
Lehaunstown Parkfarm house · 445 yd
Loughlinstown WoodsNature reserve · 1.0 mi
Bawn in Carrickmines GreatBawn · 1.0 mi
Rathmichael WalkWalking route · 1.2 mi