What is recorded here

Holy Island in County Clare holds a trapezoidal cross-slab inside St. Caimin’s church, where a plain Latin cross still emerges from weathered stone. The roof above has slowed its disappearance, but the surface remains so friable that the marks may soon vanish altogether. What is left is a thin line of faith, preserved just long enough to be seen and lost just quickly enough to be remembered.

Located against the N wall of the nave of St. Caimin’s church (CL029-009011-) and 2.55m from the W gable. A trapezoidal shaped slab noted by Macalister (1916-17, 154, no. 36) as ‘twelfth-century type’ and described as ‘6ft (1.82m) by 2ft 3in (0.68m), tapering to 1ft 9in (0.53m) by 5in (0.12m) thick, bearing a plain Latin cross of two lines. There is a square hole cut above the head of the cross, 1 5/8 in deep (0.04m). The surface of the cross is very friable, and is much weathered; the cross can only just be traced, and will before long be entirely scaled away.’ The roofing of St. Caimin’s church has helped to halt the deterioration of the slab. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 6 October 2015

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