What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where St. Caimin’s church still stands beside the sea. A broken cross-slab once marked that place, though little of it remains known today. What is lost is not nothing. The island kept the shape of devotion long after the stone disappeared from memory.

A fragment of a cross-slab described by Macalister (1916-17, 161, no. 80) as 5in (0.12m) square, 1.5in (0.03m) thick with part of the stem of a two-line cross (1in (0.02m) broad) running over it. This fragment was noted by Macalister on the S wall of the nave of St. Caimin’s church (CL029-009011-). Its precise current location is unknown. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 2 November 2015

Dated to the early Christian period (c. 7th–10th century), the cross-slab fragment likely served a religious or commemorative function, possibly associated with a monastic or ecclesiastical site on Inishcaltra. The two-line cross design reflects Insular Christian artistic traditions, though specific folklore or dedications linked to the site are not recorded.

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