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
- Coordinates
- 54.43083, -8.65561
- SMR number
- SL001-002005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This broken slab was found in the 19th-century during grave-digging in the graveyard (SL001-002007-). It is now located in Templenaman church (SL001-002001-).
About one quarter of the inscribed face of this slab (H: 0.825 m, W: 0.25 m, Th: 0.1 m) has been broken off. The surviving incription reads:
AILAD OCUS AR MAELBRIG
ORORC OCUS AR EILEISE.
Translation: ‘name + ending -ailad and for maelbrig[te] …//…ororc and for eileise'.
This is a National Monument (no. 117) in state ownership.
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: 16 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.