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
- CL029-009117-
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The National Monuments Service's description
An inscribed slab sketched by Petrie (1878, pl. XXVI, fig. 55) showing a Greek cross, each arm terminating in two spirals inscribed in a circle of two lines. An inscription in two lines in the two upper cantons read: ‘MOEN GAL’ and ‘MAC LODGIN [OR BODGIN]’. The precise location of this slab is unknown. (Macalister 1916, 162, no. 82; Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 93-5).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 2 November 2015
References
Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. 2001 Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press.
Petrie, G. and Stokes, M. (ed.) 1878 Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language. Vol. 2. Dublin. Royal Historical and Archaeological Association.
Macalister, R.A.S 1916-17 The history and antiquities of Inis Cealtra. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 33C, 93-174.