Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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
- 52.91561, -8.44790
- SMR number
- CL029-009068-
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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
This graveslab is in the middle of a composite grave in the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra. This particular slab lies 3.05m from the N wall of the graveyard and 3.3m from the E wall of Teampul na bhFear nGonta (CL029-009015-). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 154) as of ‘twelfth-century type’ the slab (L 1.45m; Wth 0.46m; T 0.06m) is broken into three large pieces with several smaller pieces missing. An inscription occurs on what is now the middle piece and it is incised in a single line along the long axis of the stone. The text is incomplete and reads ‘OR DO MACCU’. This is the only inscribed stone on the island that contains no cross (Macalister ibid.). (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 61-4)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 6 October 2015
References
Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. 2001 Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1906 The inscriptions of Iniscaltra, Lough Derg, County Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 36, 303-10.
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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.