Graveslab in Dunboyke, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

Situated at a break in a marked SW-facing slope immediately outside the SW angle of the nave of Dunboyke church (WI015-011001-). A granite slab (H 0.28m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.28m) with the outline of a cross formed by a shallow incised groove (Wth 0.015m; D 0.005m) on its E face. (Corlett 2003, 97, 98 Slab 3) Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 19 December 2012

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI015-011009

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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