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
- CL029-009067-
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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 8.56m from the E end, this slab (H 0.96m; Wth 0.48m; T 0.06m) previously lay in the chancel of the church (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 56). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 153, no. 30) as of ‘tenth-century type’. The slab is broken in two pieces and bears an incised Latin cross with squared expanded terminals and square expansions at the centre. There is a small dent on the lower part of the left terminal. An inscription is incised in one horizontal line above the head of the cross and upside down with respect to it. It reads ‘OR DO MURCHAD’. The cross and inscription occupy the whole of the dressed face with the terminals reaching the edges. (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 56-8)
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.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1906 The inscriptions of Iniscaltra, Lough Derg, County Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 36, 303-10.
Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. 2001 Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press.
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