What is recorded here
Described by Price (1949, 149) as a flat stone by the roadside…either buried or destroyed. …said to be the bed of St. Lawrence O’Toole.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 12 November 2012
The site is associated with St. Lawrence O’Toole, a 12th-century Archbishop of Dublin known for his piety and miracles. It is said that the stone served as his resting place during a journey, and such sites were often places of local veneration and healing in medieval Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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