What is recorded here

Graveslab in Unknown Townland is a 13th-century coffin-shaped limestone slab now kept inside St Patrick’s Cathedral, its chamfered edges and raised head still readable after centuries of handling, faith and forgetfulness. It may have marked one body, one family or one forgotten churchyard, yet it survived because people kept shaping Dublin around memory rather than erasing it.

13th-century coffin-shaped limestone graveslab/head-slab (L. 1.54m x Wth 0.8-0.54m x T. 0.13m) located inside St Patrick’s Cathedral (DU018-020269-). Described in the Urban Survey of Dublin City (Bradley and King 1988, Vol. 1, 81) as a; ‘Slab with head in relief. 13th cent[ury]. Coffin-shaped limestone slab with chamfered edges’ (Hunt 1974, 140). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

13th-century Christian graveslab, associated with medieval funerary practices in Ireland. Its presence in St Patrick’s Cathedral indicates early ecclesiastical use of the site.

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