What is recorded here

Inishcaltra, an island in County Clare, keeps a twelfth-century cross-slab mounted eight metres from the west gable inside St. Caimin’s church. The tapering stone bears a hollowed Latin cross and two wheeled lower angles, marking death, journey or rebirth without words. A person may have stood before it in darkness, reading its lines as a map for the end of life.

Mounted on the N wall of the nave of St. Caimin’s church (CL029-009011-) and 8m from the W gable. Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 159, no. 71) as of ‘twelfth-century type’ and described as a slab measuring 4ft 10in (1.47m) by 2ft 5.5in (0.74m) tapering down to 2ft 2.5in (0.67m) bearing a Latin cross of two lines and hollowed angles. The two lower angles are wheeled. The space between the shaft and the enclosing panel is divided into two groups by horizontal lines. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 28 October 2015

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