Name: The Steyne/Steine or Long Stone
Nickname: unknown
Where: D'Olier Street/College Street Island
Coordinates: 53.34572225533449;-6.2571001052856445Latitude: 53°20′44.6″N
Longitude: 6°15′25.56″W
Inauguration date: 1986
Sculptor: Cliodna Cussen

Story:

Among all celtic, religious, 1916 and Guinness statues, this one is about the Vikings and where they first settled.

Near this point stood for about eight hundred years the famous Steine or Long Stone, a standing stone, 12 - 14 feet high, probably erected by the Viking inhabitants of Dublin in the 10th or 11th centuries. The river Liffey was originally much broader than it is now, and Townsend Street marks the original shoreline at this point. The strand along where Townsend Street now runs seems to have functioned as a landing place for boats throughout the Middle Ages and the Long Stone was probably set up to mark this landing place. It became one of the main landmarks around medieval Dublin, and the whole area between College Green and Ringsend became known as "The Steine", after this stone.

The faces commemorate Ivor, a Viking who ruled Dublin in the 9th century and the local convent of Mary de Hogges.

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