What is recorded here

Inishcaltra, a small island off County Clare, once held a trapezoidal cross-slab near St. Mary’s church. The stone measured about 1.1 metres long and 0.53 metres wide, tapering to 0.4 metres, and bore a wheeled cross with squares and triangles at its centre. Macalister recorded it in 1916 after it had already vanished, leaving only a drawn memory of what the island lost.

Macalister (1916, 162, no. 84 and Plate XXIV) describes a slab (L 3ft 9in (1.1m); Wth 1ft 9in (0.53m) tapering to 1ft 4in (0.4m)) pictured in a Board of Works report (1879-80) near St. Mary’s church (CL029-009008-). The trapezoidal slab bore an elaborate wheeled cross (three-lined in outline) with a pattern of squares and triangles at the centre and slightly expanded terminals, all contained within a single-line frame. The slab was missing in 1916 and its precise current location is unknown. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 3 November 2015

Probably dates to the early Christian period (5th–9th century). It may have had a liturgical or commemorative function, possibly associated with the church or local saints.

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