Inscribed slab

The National Monuments Service's description

Recumbent outside N wall of St Kevin's Church (WI023-009----) to N of slab (WI023-009015-) (29 August 2005). Described by Leask (1950, fig. 8c, 22, 44) as a ‘slab, 5 feet 9 inches [1.75m] by 2 feet 2 inches [0.66m], incised with a cross formed of an endless band; centre a plain circle; two loops at each extremity; a single line frame with hollowed angles. N of the church’.
According to Macalister (1949, 83-4) the incomplete slab measured 1.75m x 1.57m and was lying prostrate on the north side of the building popularly called St. Kevin's Kitchen (WI023-009---): No. 95 in the Board of Works Report. The slab was decorated with `a Latin cross having commonplace triquetra ends to the terminals' (Macalister 1949, 83-4). The slab bore an inscription which Macalister read as 'OROIT || ARDOMNALL' which can be expanded into OROIT AR DOMNALL (Macalister 1949, 83-4). According to Macalister (1949, 83-4) the inscription is 'much battered and requires prolonged scrutiny to make anything of it at all, though it is not difficult to see that there has been an inscription in the dexter cantons, reading downward'.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 11 December 2012

See linked document with drawing taken from Robert Cochrane Historical and Descriptive Notes with Ground Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Ecclesiastical Remains at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. Extract from the Eightieth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland 1911-12. Dublin, 1925.

See linked image with drawing from Macalister, R. A. S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum Vol. II. Dublin: Stationery Office.

References

Leask, H.G. 1950 Glendalough, Co. Wicklow: national monuments vested in the Commissioners of Public Works. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.