What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small island off Clare where a saint’s graveyard still holds stones marked for people whose names are gone. The graveslab lies flat in the east half, close enough to the walls that a person could have knelt beside it and spoken into the quiet. Its single incised line may have guided a chisel, identified a dead person, or simply marked the edge of a life remembered only by the island.

Situated in the E half of the Saint’s graveyard (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra, 12.55m from the N wall and 11.45m from the E wall. A recumbent graveslab (L 0.98m; Wth at top 0.74m; Wth at base 0.65m) drawn but not numbered on Macalister’s plan of the graveyard (1916-17, pl. XV). An incised line extends E-W 0.11m in from the straight N edge but the stone is otherwise undecorated. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 November 2015

A recumbent graveslab, likely medieval in date, found within a saint's graveyard; indicative of early Christian burial practices on Inishcaltra (Inis Cealtra).

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