What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small island where St. Caimin’s church still stands beside the sea. A truncated cross base once fitted into a rectangular socket on the south wall of the nave. Its trapezoidal sandstone block is small enough to lift, yet heavy in memory because it marked the place where worship, burial and island life crossed. The completed cross is missing, but the hollow remains visible: a wound in the wall that still points upward.

This stone was noted by Macalister (1916-17, 145, no. 5) at the S wall of the nave of St. Caimin’s church (CL029-009011-) on Inis Cealtra; it is now located in the OPW chalet on the island. The base of a cross comprising a sandstone block, roughly trapezoidal in shape (H 0.24m; Wth 0.32m at the base narrowing to 0.23m at the top) with a rectangular socket (0.13m x 0.08m; D 0.05m). The socket has vertical sides and a flat base. A possible incised line is evident on one face. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 29 September 2015

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