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
- 52.91550, -8.44796
- SMR number
- CL029-009089-
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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
Situated in the W half of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (14.3m from the S wall and 7.9m from the W wall). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 156, no. 53) as of ‘twelfth-century type’. Described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 71-2) as a large recumbent cross-slab (H 0.91m; Wth 0.61m; T 0.04m) now broken and incomplete. The slab would have been c. 1.45m in length originally. All that remains is one large piece broken in two with an incised Latin cross with hollowed angles. Macalister (ibid., pl. XIX) shows the incised cross with an expanded base or platform with concave sides. There is an inscription, most of which is in a horizontal line across the top of the cross, with one letter inside the upper arm of the cross. The text is complete and reads: ‘OR D.. INGANE’. (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 71-3)
Revised by: Mary Tunney
Date of revision: 25 April 2016
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.