Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- SL001-001048-
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The National Monuments Service's description
This record refers to the original location of a fragment of an inscribed stone, which was recorded by Wakeman (1893, 115, fig. 57) on the altar (SL001-001007-) in Teach Molaise (SL001-001005-). It was removed to the National Museum of Ireland in 1971 (Register No. 1971: 1115). Its present location is recorded under the number: DU018-217----
Fragment of a slab (H: 0.285 m, W: 0.16 m, Th: 0.052 m) incised with probably base of cross motif. This comprises a false relief circle with a tiny central boss. Curving around this is a false relief strand which may originally have extended upwards to form a cross shaft. At its lower end the outer incised line delimiting the motif is joined to two parallel, axially positioned, incised lines 0.097 m long. On the opposite face are two almost obliterated letterforms which the National Museum Register tentatively identifies as ‘D’ or ‘O’ and ‘R’.
This fragment and another fragment (SL001-001027-) may be part of the same cross-slab.
The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1997-1999 and published in:
Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press.
Date of upload: 20 February 2018