Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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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
- 52.91561, -8.44790
- SMR number
- CL029-009173-
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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 in the E half of the Saint’s graveyard (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra, 3.3m from the E wall of Teampul na bhFear nGonta (CL029-009015-) and 2.05m from the N wall of the graveyard. A narrow slab (L 1.35m E-W; Wth at top 0.12m; Wth at base 0.1m) forming the N edge of a composite grave (CL029-009210-). The slab is drawn as a wider, undecorated and unnumbered slab on Macalister’s plan of the graveyard (1916-17, pl. XV). An inscription at the W end reads ‘+ OR DO THRESSACH +’ with a cross at the beginning and the end. At least one of the S's is reversed. A mortise-like hollow on the S face of the slab at the E end may be related to the construction of the composite grave. (Tunney and Manning 2015, 42-3)
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.
Tunney, M. and Manning, C. 2015 Numbered among the saints. Archaeology Ireland 29, no. 3, 42-3.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.