What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where a weathered twelfth-century cross-slab still stands in the southwest corner of the saint’s graveyard. The Latin cross rises barely an inch above the stone, yet it remains clear enough to mark the edge of a place where burial, prayer and memory were kept together. Time has softened the slab, but it has not erased the shape of the faith that made it.

Located in the SW corner of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (3.3m from the S wall and 2.1m from the W wall). A cross-slab noted by Macalister (1916-17, 155, no. 43) as of ‘twelfth-century type’ and described as a slab, 5ft 2in (1.57m) by 2ft 5in (0.73m), with a Latin cross in high relief, 3 ½in (0.08m) above the background. This cross-slab is now much weathered. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 7 October 2015

This cross-slab, dated to the 12th century, is associated with the monastic and early Christian heritage of Inis Cealtra, a site traditionally linked to Saint Gobnait. The cross may have served a liturgical or commemorative function within the saint's graveyard.

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