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Graveslab (present location) in Unknown Townland

Graveslab (present location)
Graveslab (present location) in Unknown Townland
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Graveslab from Tully, County Dublin, bears a Latin ringed cross with five cup-marks, semi-spherical bosses under each arm, and herringbone along the shaft. It is one of eleven early granite grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard before moving into public care in 1989. Its decorations suggest a grave marked for someone remembered with care, perhaps a leader, keeper, or beloved person whose name no longer appears beside the stone.
This is the present location of the decorated grave slab from Tully, Co. Dublin (see DU026-023011-). It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This slab (H 1.06m, Wth 0.53m – 0.56m, T 0.14m) bears a Latin ringed cross in low relief on which are five cup-marks. There is a small cupmark on each arm and one at the intersection. There is a semi-spherical boss under each arm and herringbone design flanks each side of the shaft. In 1989 the slab was taken into the care of the Office of Public Works. (Ó hÉailidhe 1973, 56-57, 135; Corlett 2014, 101, Slab 1). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015
Early Christian decorated grave slab, 7th–9th century AD; 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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