Straboe Grave Slab

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Straboe Grave Slab is a medieval grave slab and National Monument located in Straboe, County Carlow, Ireland. ()

Built: VIII centuryCoordinates: 52°51'41"N, 6°46'19"W

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Straboe Grave Slab – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Tullow Museum, Brownshill Dolmen, Duckett's Grove, Castledermot Abbey.

4.3 miS
History museum, Museum
Tullow Museum, Tullow
110 min walk • Tullow Museum is a local museum in Tullow, County Carlow in Ireland. It documents the history of Tullow town and surrounding area.
4.8 miW
Monuments and statues, Archaeological site
Brownshill Dolmen, Carlow
124 min walk • Brownshill Dolmen is a very large megalithic portal tomb situated 3 km east of Carlow, in County Carlow, Ireland. Its capstone weighs an estimated 150 metric tons, and is reputed to be the heaviest in Europe. The tomb is listed as a National Monument.
1.7 miW
Historical place, Garden, Reportedly haunted
Duckett's Grove, Carlow
43 min walk • Duckett's Grove is a ruined 19th-century great house and former estate in County Carlow, Ireland. Belonging to the Duckett family, the house was formerly the focal point of a 12,000-acre estate, and dominated the local landscape of the area for more than two centuries.
4.2 miNW
Archaeological site, Gothic architecture
Castledermot Abbey, Castledermot
109 min walk • Castledermot Abbey is a ruined Franciscan friary in Castledermot, County Kildare, in the Republic of Ireland. It was founded in about the year 1300.
6.1 miSE
Forts and castles
Rathgall Hillfort
156 min walk • Rathgall, or the Ring of the Rath is a large multivallate hill fort near the town of Shillelagh. Dating from the Bronze Age, it consists of three roughly concentric stone ramparts with a fourth masonry wall dating from the Medieval period at its centre.
4.3 miNW
Observation decks and towers, Forts and castles, Tower
Castledermot Round Tower, Castledermot
110 min walk • Castledermot Round Tower is a 10th-century round tower in Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland. The tower, and the high crosses nearby, are a National Monument.
6.7 miNW
Archaeological site
Mullaghreelan Rath
170 min walk • Mullaghreelan Rath is a ringfort and National Monument located in County Kildare, Ireland.
4.6 miNW
Tower
Saint John's Tower, Castledermot
117 min walk • Saint John's Tower, also called the Pigeon Tower, is a tower in Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland. A former bell tower, it is all that remains of a medieval leper hospital and is a National Monument.
4.1 miE
Archaeological site
Rathvilly Moat, Rathvilly
106 min walk • Rathvilly Moat is a motte and National Monument located in County Carlow, Ireland.
1.7 miS
Forts and castles
Ballyloughan Castle
44 min walk • Ballyloughan Castle is a ruined castle and National Monument in County Carlow near Bagenalstown. A twin-towered gatehouse, the hall and foundations of one of the corner towers, dating to about 1300 remain.
3.6 miS
Archaeological site
Castlemore Moat
92 min walk • Castlemore Moat is a motte-and-bailey and National Monument in County Carlow, Ireland.