What is recorded here

Dalkey Church ruins still stand beside the live church, but the graveyard holds a broken granite slab marked with a central line, six diagonal strokes on each side, and a small round cup near the damaged end. That is all the evidence needed: someone cut a pattern into hard stone, broke or lost half of it, and left the remainder behind the church wall. The missing part may have been a name, a symbol or a whole end of the slab. What remains is a dead person's marker reduced to geometry, waiting for the lost half to return in memory rather than stone.

Located near the N boundary wall of the graveyard (DU023-023020-). The granite slab (L 0.79m, Wth 0.47m - 0.40m, T 0.07m) is broken and is decorated on one face only. Near the broken end is a round-bottomed cupmark (D 0.06m). An incised line extends down the centre of the slab, through the cupmark and on each side of this line are six diagonal lines, forming a rough herringbone pattern (Ó hÉailidhe, 1982, 139-40, Fig. 53b; Swords, K. ed. 2009, 88-9). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 28 July 2018

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