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
- CL029-009091-
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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
A recumbent cross-slab situated in the E half of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (5.38m from the N wall and 6.16m from the E wall). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 157, no. 55) as of ‘twelfth-century type’ and described as a slab measuring 4ft 2in (1.27m) by 1ft 6in (0.45m), with a Latin cross with hollowed angles. At the base of the shaft the lines bend outward at 90 degrees and extend to the edges of the slab. (de Paor drawing, SMR file)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 22 October 2015
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.