What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where a broken cross-slab still stands inside the Saint’s Graveyard, its lines blocked with cement and its corners reduced to a single remaining piece. The fragment is not whole, yet it keeps the shape of a cross: a stem, a frame, and the suggestion that someone cut, carried, set and forgot the rest.

A fragment of a cross-slab (Wth 0.49m; H 0.47m), one of two fragments mounted on the outer face of the W wall of the Saint’s Graveyard (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra, 13.6m from the N end (see CL019-009121-). Macalister (1916-17, 161, no. 78) described part of the stem of a three-line cross in a rectangular single-line frame with simple corner pieces, one of which remained. He also noted that the lines of the carving were clogged with cement. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 2 November 2015

A fragment of a cross-slab, likely dating to the early medieval period (7th–10th century), associated with the monastic site of Inis Cealtra; such stones often commemorate saints or mark sacred burial grounds.

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