Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, County Clare, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Sundialunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.