What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where a recumbent cross-slab still lies in the eastern half of the saint’s graveyard. The twelfth-century stone measures about four feet two inches by one foot six inches, and its Latin cross has hollowed angles that bend outward at the base to touch the slab’s edges. It is the kind of place where prayer, memory and stone work together, even when the names behind the prayer have thinned into silence.

A recumbent cross-slab situated in the E half of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (5.38m from the N wall and 6.16m from the E wall). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 157, no. 55) as of ‘twelfth-century type’ and described as a slab measuring 4ft 2in (1.27m) by 1ft 6in (0.45m), with a Latin cross with hollowed angles. At the base of the shaft the lines bend outward at 90 degrees and extend to the edges of the slab. (de Paor drawing, SMR file) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 22 October 2015

A recumbent cross-slab dating likely to the 12th century, associated with a Christian burial or memorial site on a historically significant island. The cross-slab may reflect early medieval Christian art and the spiritual or ecclesiastical use of the site.

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