What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where a tall cross-slab still stands inside the old Saint’s graveyard. The stone is about four feet high and carries three different crosses near the top, as if one maker wanted every possible shape of faith to fit on a single surface. People may have walked past it for centuries, reading its marks the way others read a name.

Located in the E half of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (12.6m from the N wall and 4.06m from the E wall). A cross-slab noted by Macalister (1916-17, 156, no. 46) as of ‘twelfth-century type’ and described as a slab, 4ft 1in (1.24m) by 1ft 4 1/4in (0.41m), with three small crosses in a row at the upper end. In the middle is a Greek cross in relief. To the left is a Latin cross with a cross-shaped groove running over its surface and to the right is a Latin cross pattée, both in false relief. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 7 October 2015

A cross-slab likely dating to the 12th century, associated with a Christian holy site; such stones often marked ecclesiastical boundaries or commemorated saints. Inishcaltra, known as Holy Island, was an important monastic and pilgrimage site in early medieval Ireland.

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