What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where a recumbent cross-slab still lies in the saint’s graveyard, its double-lined Latin cross and worn square ornament surviving from the twelfth century. The stone leans near the south and west walls as if placed there deliberately, marking burial, prayer or warning in a sea-exposed church. Its sharp geometry and faded pattern suggest that people once read it closely before wind and time softened the edges.

A recumbent cross-slab situated in the SW corner of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (5.3m from the S wall and 2.7m from the W wall). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 160, no. 76) as of ‘twelfth-century type’ and described as a slab measuring 6ft 8in (2m) by 2ft 3.5in (0.69m), tapering to 2ft 1in (0.63m) with a Latin cross of double lines with hollowed angles. The base of the stone and the whole background is covered with an ornament of squares and crosses but is much worn. (de Paor drawing, SMR file) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 28 October 2015

A recumbent cross-slab from the early medieval period, likely 12th century, associated with a Christian burial or commemorative site on a historically significant monastic island. Such stones often marked the graves of important figures or served as ecclesiastical markers.

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