What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small island graveyard where St. Caimin’s church still stands beside stones marked for the dead. A broken erect stone keeps a narrow vertical groove on its west face, perhaps the shaft of a cross lost to time. People may have touched that ridge, prayed beside it or simply remembered someone the island refused to release.

Situated in the graveyard (CL029-009012-) S of St. Caimin’s church (CL029-009011-) on Inis Cealtra, 4m S of the doorway linking this graveyard and the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-). An erect earthfast stone aligned N-S (H 0.84m; T 0.15; Wth at base 0.64m shouldered at the sides and narrowing to 0.34m at the top). The top of the stone is broken off. The W face has a central vertical carving (Wth 0.025m) comprising a rib flanked on each side by an incised line. The line extends 0.44m down from the broken top of the stone and may represent a cross shaft. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 November 2015

Probably early Christian period (5th–9th century), associated with the monastic site of Inishcaltra. The cross inscription may have had a liturgical or commemorative function, reflecting the island’s role as a holy site linked to St. Caimin.

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