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
- CL029-009101-
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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 near the centre of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (13.7m from the S wall and 8.5m from the W wall). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 158, no. 66) as of ‘twelfth-century type’. Described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 85-7) as a large cross-slab (H 1.77m; Wth 0.52m; T 0.6m). The face is incised with an outline Latin cross with hollowed angles. The lower part is much worn. Macalister drew a triangular base and two horizontal lines running from each side of the cross, just above the base to the edges of the stone. These are no longer evident. An incomplete inscription in one vertical line down the shaft of the cross reads ‘OR[-]DOMNALL’. The horizontal lines mentioned above are evident in a rubbing (pers. comm. Clíodhna O'Leary, 22 April 2016).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 27 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
- 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.