Graveslab (present location)

The National Monuments Service's description

When recorded by Macalister (1916-17, 158, no. 63, and plate XIX), this graveslab (see CL029-009036- for original location) was on the S wall of St. Caimin's church (CL029-009011-), on Inis Cealtra (Holy Island), Co. Clare. It was exhibited in Mountshannon in August 1982 and was then placed for safe keeping in the OPW depot in Athenry, Co. Galway. The slab (H 0.96m; Wth 0.38m; T 0.06m) is irregular in shape and well-preserved. The face is dressed and deeply incised with an outline Latin cross hollowed at the angles and resting on a trapezoidal base. An inscription in two lines is incised above the cross and inverted and it reads ‘ORDOMAEL PATRAIC’ (with the OR overlined). It was dated by Macalister (ibid.) to the 12th century. (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 83-5)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Olive Alcock

Date upload: 10 March 2023

References

Macalister, R.A.S 1916-17 The history and antiquities of Inis Cealtra. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 33C, 93-174.

Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. 2001 Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press.