What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where a saint’s graveyard still holds stones marked by crosses and memories. The story says a holy woman came there, lived simply, and was buried beside the church. People visited the island for prayer, quiet and connection to her life. The graveslab is one of those markers, preserving a line of memory between the community and the saint.

Situated immediately outside the E wall of Teampul na bhFear nGonta (CL029-009015-) within the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra and 5.57m from the N wall of the graveyard. A recumbent graveslab (L 0.59m E-W; Wth 0.25m) with a rough and uneven surface indicated as plain and not numbered on Macalister’s plan of the graveyard (1916-17, pl. XV). De Paor depicts the faint outline of a carved wheeled cross with ornamentation consisting of small crosses on one side of the shaft (drawing, SMR file); due to weathering it is unclear whether de Paor's drawing refers to this slab, an adjacent one (CL029-009170-) or indeed one that may now be completely overgrown. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 November 2015

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