What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small island off the Clare coast where a broken twelfth-century cross-slab still lies in the western half of the saint’s graveyard. The surviving fragment bears a Latin cross with hollowed angles and the name OR D.. INGANE, preserving one life across centuries of tide, wind and forgetting.

Situated in the W half of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (14.3m from the S wall and 7.9m from the W wall). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 156, no. 53) as of ‘twelfth-century type’. Described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 71-2) as a large recumbent cross-slab (H 0.91m; Wth 0.61m; T 0.04m) now broken and incomplete. The slab would have been c. 1.45m in length originally. All that remains is one large piece broken in two with an incised Latin cross with hollowed angles. Macalister (ibid., pl. XIX) shows the incised cross with an expanded base or platform with concave sides. There is an inscription, most of which is in a horizontal line across the top of the cross, with one letter inside the upper arm of the cross. The text is complete and reads: ‘OR D.. INGANE’. (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 71-3) Revised by: Mary Tunney Date of revision: 25 April 2016

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