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
- SMR number
- CL029-009116-
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The National Monuments Service's description
An inscribed slab, removed to Adare by Lord Dunraven prior to 1865 and recorded and depicted in the memorials of Adare Manor (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 89). It measured 0.6m by 0.45m and bore a Latin cross formed of a band doubled along the line of the arms and shaft and interlacing into a triquetra knot at the terminals. The cross was set inside a single-line frame. It bore an inscription below the frame which read: ‘OR DO CHUNN’. The precise location of this slab is unknown. (Macalister 1916, 161-2, no. 81 and Plate XXIV; Okasha and Forsyth 889-91).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 2 November 2015
References
Macalister, R.A.S 1916-17 The history and antiquities of Inis Cealtra. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 33C, 93-174.
Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. 2001 Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press.