What is recorded here

Inscribed stone in Inishmurray is an inscribed stone in Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland. Wakeman recorded the thin flat flag on the Teach Molaise altar in 1893 before its 1971 transfer to the National Museum of Ireland. Heraughty translated the inscription as naming Nerach as maker of the Cross of Talt, on behalf of our souls.

This record refers to an inscribed stone which was first recorded by Wakeman (1893, 85, fig. 41) on the altar (SL001-001007-) of Teach Molaise (SL001-001005-) in the Cashel (SL001-001001-). It was removed to the National Museum of Ireland in 1971 (National Museum Register No 1971: 1118). Its monument number at its present location is DU018-215----. Inscribed thin flat stone or flag (H: 0.31 m, W: 0.21 m, Th: 0.065). Wakeman, and subsequently the National Museum of Ireland could not decipher this at first, but Heraughty (1982, 33) gives the inscription as: ORAIR AR NEARACH:DO RIGHNE CRIX TALT PRO ANIMIS NOSTRIBUS Heraughty’s transcription would translate as ‘Nerach who made [this] Cross [of] Talt, on behalf of our souls.' The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1997-1999 and published in: Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press. Date of upload: 20 February 2018

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