What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small island off County Clare where St. Caimin’s church still stands. Inside the nave, a broken sandstone disc lies embedded in the floor along the north wall. It bears a plain equal-armed cross, the kind of marker people used to identify sacred ground before written records existed. The island has no permanent residents, but the church and its stones remain, holding the shape of older devotion.

Situated on the floor along the N wall of the nave of St. Caimin’s church (CL029-009011-). A fragment of a cross-inscribed sandstone slab (H 0.22m; Wth 0.21m; T 0.05m) with one curved edge. It may originally have been subcircular. A simple single-lined equal-armed cross appears to be central to the original shape of the slab. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 November 2015

Probably dates to the early medieval period (6th–10th century), associated with Christian worship or commemorative practice. The cross inscription may reflect a Christian adaptation of earlier symbolic traditions, possibly linked to local saints or territorial markers.

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