What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where a twelfth-century cross-slab still stands near the saint’s graveyard, its middle flaked away but its bent side lines stretching to the edges. The island has long been called holy, and that name still shapes the place: a narrow sea field where burial, prayer and memory were kept together. Anyone walking past the slab is being invited to remember that holiness can be ordinary, repeated and marked in stone.

Situated close to the entrance to the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (14.3m from the S wall and 3m from the W wall). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 155, no. 40) as of ‘twelfth-century type’ and described as ‘a slab, 5ft 2in (1.57m) by 2ft (0.6m)…Latin cross, the middle flaked away, the bottom left open. The side lines are bent outward at right angles, and prolonged to reach the edges of the slab.’ Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 6 October 2015

Likely dating to the early medieval period, around the 12th century, the cross-slab is associated with the monastic and ecclesiastical heritage of Inis Cealtra, a site long linked to Saint Gobnait. It may have marked a sacred space or served as a memorial within the 'Saint's graveyard.'

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