Graveslab in Rathdrum, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

Price (1980, 13-14) mentions a church (WI030-037----) in this townland, first mentioned in 1280. A late medieval graveslab with an incised wheel cross and a serpent at the base of an inscription, now in the NMI (where it is designated DU018-257----), may have come from this site.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI030-036

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