What is recorded here

Graveslab in Laughanstown is a one-metre granite slab tucked into the arch of an east window at Tully church, repurposed from burial to building. It tapers from sixty centimetres to barely two centimetres, like a knife edge drawn across stone. Four slabs share that window arch, suggesting someone valued their weight or shape enough to lift them into the wall rather than leave them buried. The dead may have become scaffolding for the living, their graves rewritten as architecture.

It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This is one of four slabs built into the arch of one of the E windows of Tully church (DU026-023001-). It measures 1m long and tapers from 0.60m to 0.019m. (Swords 2009, 69, No. 83) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015

Early Christian gravestone; 7th–9th century AD. It is part of a rare surviving group of early Christian stone carvings in the Dublin region, reflecting the use of local granite and the integration of ancient monuments into later ecclesiastical structures.

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