Lucky Stone
The Lucky Stone ( Irish Cloch to AIDH ) called grave plate is a cross-slab of granite from the late 9th century; it stood for centuries in Saint Audoen's Church in central Dublin in County Dublin in Ireland .
The stone is 0.9 m long, 0.57 m wide and 0.13 m thick, with a relief of a Greek cross and indentations in the corners, within a double circle. It is also provided with a motif on the back, but it is hardly recognizable.
Although the plate was removed from the church several times, it kept returning to its place. In 1308 Jon Le Decer, Mayor of Dublin from 1307 to 1309, built a marble cistern on Cornmarket (The Decer's Fountain) to supply the citizens of Dublin with water. The stone was placed next to the cistern. The lucky stone was stolen in 1826 and had disappeared twenty years before it was found in front of the newly built Catholic Church on High Street. Canon Alexander Leeper (1815–1893) moved the stone to its current position in the 1860s: under the canopy north of the tower.
literature
- W. Frazer: On Holed and Perforated Stones in Ireland . JRSAI Vol. 6 (1896)
- Alexander Leeper: History of St. Audoen’s (Dublin, 1873)
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Audoen's is the oldest medieval parish church in Dublin that is still in use today. The church was built in 1190 and is named after St. Ouen (or Audoen) of Rouen in Normandy .