What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where St Mary’s Church still stands beside a humped sandstone slab. The unmarked stone lies less than a metre from the south wall, large enough to cover a body but smooth of name and date. It may be an old graveslab or merely a chunk of island rock dragged into the churchyard. Either way it belongs to the place, waiting for someone to remember what it held.

Situated c. 0.88m outside the S wall of St. Mary’s Church (CL029-009008-) on Inis Cealtra. A large recumbent sandstone graveslab (L 1.37m; Wth 0.45m) with a straight W side and uneven shape elsewhere. The surface of the slab is also very uneven and has a ‘humped’ shape and no visible markings. It is not clear that this is an early graveslab. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 27 June 2016

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