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
- CL029-009088-
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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
Mounted against the S wall of the nave of St. Caimin’s church (CL029-009011-) on Inis Cealtra and 6.62m from the E end. A cross-slab (L 1.19m; Wth 0.42m; T 0.16m) noted by Macalister (1916-17, 156, no. 52) as of ‘twelfth-century type’ with a Latin cross with hollowed angles and an expanding base. An inscription in two horizontal lines above the top of the cross and upside down with respect to it reads ‘OR DOLAITH BERTACH’. The same name occurs on another cross-slab (CL029-009198-) in St. Caimin’s church. (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 69-71)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 22 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.
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.