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Graveslab in Inishcaltra OR Holy Island

Graveslab

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That bare, uneven slab still lies recumbent in the eastern half of the Saint’s graveyard on Inis Cealtra, close enough to the walls that a person could have leaned against them while placing it. It has no carving, no name and no number, yet Macalister drew it in 1916-17, proving the grave mattered even when identity vanished. Perhaps it belongs to someone who came to the holy island not for fame but for forgetfulness, and the stone keeps that request intact.
Situated in the E half of the Saint’s graveyard (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra, 11.25m from the N wall and 11.45m from the E wall. An undecorated, uneven, recumbent graveslab (L 1.2m E-W; Wth 0.49m) drawn but not numbered on Macalister’s plan of the graveyard (1916-17, pl. XV). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 November 2015

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