What is recorded here

Inishcaltra is a small Clare island where a recumbent cross-slab still lies near the centre of the Saint’s graveyard. The stone is large enough to mark a important life, yet weather has rubbed much of its lower story flat. Its surviving cross and fragment of a name suggest that faith, memory and loss were being shaped there when the island was still a living place.

A recumbent cross-slab situated near the centre of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (13.7m from the S wall and 8.5m from the W wall). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 158, no. 66) as of ‘twelfth-century type’. Described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 85-7) as a large cross-slab (H 1.77m; Wth 0.52m; T 0.6m). The face is incised with an outline Latin cross with hollowed angles. The lower part is much worn. Macalister drew a triangular base and two horizontal lines running from each side of the cross, just above the base to the edges of the stone. These are no longer evident. An incomplete inscription in one vertical line down the shaft of the cross reads ‘OR[-]DOMNALL’. The horizontal lines mentioned above are evident in a rubbing (pers. comm. Clíodhna O'Leary, 22 April 2016). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 27 October 2015

A recumbent cross-slab from the 12th century, likely associated with early Christian monastic activity on Inishcaltra (Inis Cealtra), a site traditionally linked to Saint Gobnait. The cross may have marked a burial or served as a memorial within the sacred landscape of the "Saint’s graveyard."

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