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
- 52.91549, -8.44835
- SMR number
- CL029-009198-
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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
Mounted in an inverted position against the S wall of the nave of St. Caimin’s church (CL029-009011-) on Inis Cealtra and 2.88m from the E end. A cross-slab (H 0.51m; Wth 0.33m; T 0.06m) found during excavations in 1970-72. The slab bears an outline Latin cross with square expanded terminals and a square at the centre enclosed in a double-lined frame. The text, in two lines in the upper quadrant reads ‘FLA[ITH] BERTACH’. The same name occurs on another cross-slab (CL029-009088-) in St. Caimin’s church. (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 99-101)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 17 November 2015
References
Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. 2001 Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Sundialunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.