What is recorded here

Graveslab in Unknown Townland is a 13th-century coffin-shaped limestone slab now inside St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Its stepped sides and plain surface suggest it was made to fit a body, not to display a name or symbol. It may have marked one ordinary death before the cathedral gave it a second life as a remembered thing.

13th-century coffin-shaped limestone graveslab (L. 1.12m x Wth 0.7-0.54m x T. 0.14m) located inside St Patrick’s Cathedral (DU018-020269-). Described in the Urban Survey of Dublin City (Bradley and King 1988, Vol. 1, 81) as a; ‘Coffin-shaped slab. Prob. 13th cent[ury]. Limestone. Stepped sides but otherwise undecorated’ (Hunt 1974, 140). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

13th-century coffin-shaped limestone graveslab; associated with medieval Christian burial practices. Its presence within St Patrick’s Cathedral indicates ecclesiastical use and reflects funerary traditions in medieval Dublin.

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