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Graveslab

Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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