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
- CL029-009210-
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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 and 3.3m from the E wall of Teampul na bhfear ngonta (CL029-009015-). A composite grave of recumbent slabs separated and framed by a series of kerb-like slabs, two at the top, five along the base and one at north. A continuity of the eastern kerb is suggested by the presence of a single thin slab protruding above ground level. There were originally at least five slabs. Two of the remaining slabs are cross-slabs (CL029-009095- and CL029-009094-) and two have inscriptions (CL029-009068- and CL029-009173-). A mortise-like depression on the S face of the most northerly kerbstone may have functioned as a slot into which the adjoining eastern kerbstone fitted at this corner. (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 64; Tunney and Manning 2015, 42-3)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 17 November 2015
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.