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Cross-slab

Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Inishcaltra Or Holy Island
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.91549, -8.44835
SMR number
CL029-009066-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located against the S wall of the nave of St. Caimin’s church (CL029-009011-) and 1m from the E end. Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 152-3, no. 29) as of ‘tenth-century type’ and described as ‘a slab, measuring 3ft 9in (1.14m) by 2ft 6in (0.76m) bearing …a Latin cross with circular expansion at the centre, having a spiral pattern…in the middle of the circle… The terminal expansions are semicircular and contain key-patterns of common type.’ Macalister also notes that the cross is very similar to the Clonmacnoise type of this period and may have been produced by a Clonmacnoise artist. Apart from the flat decorated face, the slab is rough and unworked with an unusual shape, rounded at the sides and coming to a point at the top.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 6 October 2015

References

Macalister, R.A.S 1916-17 The history and antiquities of Inis Cealtra. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 33C, 93-174.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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