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 indcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.91550, -8.44796
- SMR number
- CL029-009170-
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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
Situated immediately outside the E wall of Teampul na bhFear nGonta (CL029-009015-) within the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra and 5.98m from the N wall of the graveyard. A recumbent graveslab (L 0.73m; Wth 0.38m) indicated as plain and not numbered on Macalister’s plan of the graveyard (1916-17, pl. XV). De Paor depicts the faint outline of a carved wheeled cross with ornamentation consisting of small crosses on one side of the shaft (drawing, SMR file); due to weathering it is unclear whether de Paor's drawing refers to this slab, an adjacent one (CL029-009171-) or indeed one that may now be completely overgrown.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 16 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.
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.