What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where St. Caimin’s Church still stands beside old water and memory. The cross-slab is not a tall monument but a modest sandstone mark, small enough to touch and strange enough to stop a person mid-breath. Its circles, angular lines and worn cross suggest prayer, ownership, warning or love, though time has refused to explain which.

Located against the N wall of the nave of St. Caimin’s Church (CL029-009011-) on Inis Cealtra and 7.14m from the W gable. A cross-slab comprising an irregularly shaped sandstone slab (H 0.43m; max. Wth 0.4m) with a single-line Latin cross within a single-line frame. The upper portion is wheeled and the spandrels are decorated with angular lines. There is a circle with a central depression at the head, base and end of each arm of the cross. (Macalister 1916-17, 162, no. 83; de Paor drawing, SMR file) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 2 November 2015

Probably dates to the early medieval period (7th–10th century), reflecting a Christian context associated with the monastic site of Inishcaltra. The cross-slab may have served as a grave marker or liturgical object, linked to the veneration of St. Caimin and early Irish monastic tradition.

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