The Vikings

Rathdown Slab, Rathmichael

Here is a close up of one of the slabs. Do you like the design? The eye-like design is what is called a concentric circle.

Audrey Geraghty

Rathdown Slab, Rathmichael
Audrey Geraghty

Rathdown Slab, Rathmichael

Here is a close up of one of the slabs. Do you like the design? The eye-like design is what is called a concentric circle.

Audrey Geraghty

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The slabs are very important to historians today because they provide real evidence that the Vikings actually lived in Dublin.

Twenty-eight slabs have been found across the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown area: at Ballyman, Dalkey, Kilgobbin, Killegar, Kiltiernan, Rathfarnham, Tully, and Whitechurch, with the biggest group of nine slabs located at Rathmichael.

They are simple in appearance, usually a couple of feet in height and about a foot in width. They have ancient designs carved on them.