What is recorded here

Graveslab (present location) in Unknown Townland holds a buried Irish memory. The place preserves a decorated stone, not a building or a street. That distinction matters because it is still a lived record. People may have stood near it, touched it or remembered someone lost. The stone still exists because someone valued it enough to keep it visible.

This is the present location of the decorated grave slab from Tully, Co. Dublin (see DU026-023006-). It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This slab (L 1m; Wth 0.48m and 0.10m to 0.13m T) was found deeply buried in an upright position in 1982 c. 15m SW of the chancel of the church (DU026-023001-). It tapers slightly and has a large corner broken from one end and an unknown amount from the other. It bears a cup-mark enclosed by three concentric circles. An off-centre band extends from the outer circular to the opposite end. At each side of this band are diagonal and transverse lines forming a herring bone pattern. The slab was secured to the inside wall of the chancel and in 1989 was taken into the care of the Office of Public Works. (Ó hÉailidhe 1982; Corlett 2014, 102, Slab 3). 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 medieval stone carvings from the Tully graveyard, reflecting Christian funerary practices in early Ireland.

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