What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where a broken cross-slab still lies in the western half of the saint’s graveyard. Its upper cross has hollowed angles inside a rectangular panel, the kind Macalister called twelfth-century. The slab may have stood upright once, marked a burial or watched over the island, before time and weather took the rest.

A recumbent cross-slab situated in the W half of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (6.3m from the S wall and 2.4m from the W wall). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 159, no. 68) as of ‘twelfth-century type’ and described as a fragment of a slab measuring 2ft 6in (0.76m) by 1ft 9in (0.53m), bearing the upper part of a cross with hollowed angles. The whole pattern was in a rectangular panel. (de Paor drawing, SMR file) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 28 October 2015

A 12th-century cross-slab located in a saint's graveyard on Inishcaltra (Holy Island), likely associated with early Christian worship or a monastic site; such stones often marked holy burials or served as memorials to religious figures.

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