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
- 52.91583, -8.44822
- SMR number
- CL029-009092-
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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
Lying on the ground to the S of the OPW chalet on Iniscealtra, among other architectural fragments. A cross-slab depicted in the W half of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Macalister’s plan (1916-17, pl. XV) and described (ibid., 157, no. 56) as a cross-slab of ‘twelfth-century type’ 4ft 10in (1.47m) by 1ft 5in (0.43m) with a double-lined incised Latin cross with hollowed angles. The arms and head of the cross extended to the edges of the slab and at the base the lines bend outwards at 90 degrees and extend to the edge also. De Paor (List 2, SMR file) noted that during his time on the island the slab was in a pile of worked stone beside the wall of the Saint’s Graveyard. His drawing shows the slab as broken at a slight angle across the middle. Only the upper portion is now present (L 0.89m).
Revised by: Mary Tunney
Date of revision: 26 April 2016
References
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.