What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small island in County Clare, Ireland. It is also called Holy Island. The island is known for a saint's graveyard and old burial slabs. One graveslab lies inside Teampul na bhFear nGonta. It is the southernmost of four slabs on the chapel floor. The slab is 1.12m long and 0.28m wide. It still lies flat where it has been since people stopped laying new stones beside it.

A recumbent graveslab (L 1.12m; Wth 0.28m), the southernmost of four slabs on the floor of ‘Teampul na bhFear nGonta’ (CL029-009015-) (see also CL029-009104-, CL029-009161- and CL029-009162-) in the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra. The slab is drawn but not numbered on Macalister’s plan of the graveyard (1916-17, pl. XV). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 November 2015

A recumbent stone in a Christian burial context, likely medieval in date; part of a saint's graveyard associated with early monastic or ecclesiastical traditions in the region.

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