What is recorded here

Graveslab in Inishcaltra OR Holy Island is a twelfth-century stone on Inis Cealtra, broken into three large pieces but still bearing the incomplete words OR DO MACCU. It lies beside Teampul na bhFear nGonta in the Saint’s graveyard, the only inscribed stone on the island without a cross. The missing fragments suggest a name or prayer now lost, leaving the dead person half-remembered and the island’s silence slightly sharper.

This graveslab is in the middle of a composite grave in the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra. This particular slab lies 3.05m from the N wall of the graveyard and 3.3m from the E wall of Teampul na bhFear nGonta (CL029-009015-). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 154) as of ‘twelfth-century type’ the slab (L 1.45m; Wth 0.46m; T 0.06m) is broken into three large pieces with several smaller pieces missing. An inscription occurs on what is now the middle piece and it is incised in a single line along the long axis of the stone. The text is incomplete and reads ‘OR DO MACCU’. This is the only inscribed stone on the island that contains no cross (Macalister ibid.). (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 61-4) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 6 October 2015

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