Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pillar stone
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
- 52.91529, -8.44827
- SMR number
- CL029-009209-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Lying loose against the W wall of St. Caimin’s graveyard (CL029-009012-) on Inis Cealtra. A tall, slightly tapering stone with a sloping top (L 1.12m; Wth at base 0.12m; Wth in middle 0.2m; Wth at top 0.16m; T 0.14 at base and 0.12m at the top). The lowest 0.2m is rough and may have been under ground. One face is worked smooth and flat with 5 small depressions (diam. 0.02m (smallest) to 0.04m (largest)), some circular and some oval, arranged in serpentine fashion 0.34-0.5m up from the base. No other markings are evident. The precise original location of this stone is unknown.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 17 November 2015
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Sundialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.