What is recorded here

Graveslab in Laughanstown is a tapering granite slab built into the arch of an east window at Tully church, saving a life from the graveyard by making it a bridge for light. It measures 0.94m long and narrows from 0.56m to 0.23m, small enough to carry yet heavy enough to mark death. The church reused it, perhaps proudly, perhaps blindly, turning a grave into architecture.

It is one of eleven granite early medieval or pre-Norman graveslabs recorded at Tully graveyard(DU026-023002-) (Swords 2009). This is one of four slabs built into the arch of one of the E windows of Tully church (DU026-023001-). It measures L 0.94m long and tapers from 0.56m to 0.23m (Swords 2009 69, No. 84). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015

Early medieval Christian graveslab, 7th–10th century; part of a group of early medieval stone monuments in Tully graveyard, significant for their artistic and historical value in the development of Christian burial practices in Ireland.

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