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
- CL029-009102-
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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 beside the W wall of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (19.3m from the S wall and 1.8m from the W wall). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 159, no. 67) as of ‘twelfth-century type’. Described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 87-9) as a large cross-slab (H 1.16m; Wth 0.43m; T 0.5m). The face is incised with an outline Latin cross with hollowed angles. The top and shaft are open. The arms meet lines which frame the length of the slab. The cross sits on a base of unusual shape carved in low relief, consisting of an inverted triangle with large flat bosses at the upper corners and rounded apex. The end of the slab is shaped to a rounded point. An incomplete inscription in two horizontal lines across the top of the cross reads ‘SEC ||H||NAILL [-]DOMAEL’. Taking the lower line first the text reads ‘…do Máel Sechnaill’.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 27 October 2015
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.