What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where a twelfth-century cross-slab still stands inside St. Caimin’s church, mounted near the west wall like a marker left behind for someone who has gone. The stone carries a Latin cross with hollowed angles, small pellets in those hollows, and an upside-down name carved above it: Ordodiarmait mac Cdelbaid. To touch that name is to meet the edge of history, where one man’s memory became a shape others could point to, pray beside, or forget for centuries before remembering again.

Mounted against the N wall of the nave of St. Caimin’s church (CL029-009011-) on Inis Cealtra and 0.9m from the W gable. A cross-slab (L 1.49m; Wth 0.59m; T 0.07m) noted by Macalister (1916-17, 158, no. 62) as of ‘twelfth-century type’ with a Latin cross with hollowed angles and an expanding base. The outline of the cross is formed by a broad flat band and there is a pellet in each of the four hollows (Okasha and Forsyth, 2001 82). An inscription in two horizontal lines above the top of the cross and upside down with respect to it reads ‘ORDODIARMAIT MACCDELBAID’. (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 81-3) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 27 October 2015

A cross-slab likely dating to the early medieval period, associated with the monastic site of Inishcaltra (Holy Island), and possibly linked to Christian worship or commemorative practice.

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