What is recorded here

Graveslab (present location) in Unknown Townland holds a tapered Dublin grave slab rescued from Tully in 1989. Its concentric circles and herringbone marks still face whoever stops beside them, while its small edge arms reach out like forgotten handles. The stone left a crowded graveyard to be kept separately, yet it may have belonged to someone ordinary whose name never survived the cutting.

This is the present location of the decorated grave slab from Tully, Co. Dublin (see DU026-023010-). It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This slab (H 1.51m, Wth 0.41-0.27m, T 0.08m) is tapered and has two vestigial arms protruding from the edges. It bears three groups of concentric circles on a central band with herringbone pattern on each side (Ó hÉailidhe 1957, 79, no. 10; Ó hÉailidhe 1973, 56, 57, B13). In 1989 the slab was taken into the care of the Office of Public Works. (Swords 2009, 93-4; Corlett 2014, 93-4, Slab 2) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015

Early Christian decorated grave slab; 7th–9th century. Significant as part of a rare group of early Christian stone carvings from the Tully graveyard, reflecting early monastic or ecclesiastical activity in east Co. Dublin.

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