What is recorded here

Dalkey’s lost boundary still stands at the top of Castle Street, a sandstone cross with one broken arm inside a raised graveyard. It marks the place where the town began to climb, where burial and road touched, and where a missing stone could have changed the shape of memory. The gap in its arm does not weaken the cross; it admits that testimony often arrives incomplete.

Situated at the N end of Dalkey town at the junction of Castle Street and Ormeau Dive. The cross is located is within a rectangular walled-in graveyard raised above the level of the road. A sandstone Latin cross close to the N wall of the church (DU023-023002-), the upper arm is broken (L0.84m, Wth 0.7m, T 0.05m). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 22 May 2018

A sandstone Latin cross built in the 10th or 11th century, likely by an early Christian community; it is situated in a walled graveyard and is associated with the early monastic site of Dalkey, dedicated to Saint Kevin. Its survival reflects the area's historical role in early Irish Christianity.

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