What is recorded here

Cross-slab in Inishmurray is a cross-slab in Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland. Wakeman first recorded it in Teach Molaise in 1893. The stone measured 0.429 metres in height, 0.213 metres in width and 0.028 metres in thickness. One face carries a simple incised cross before the words OR DO MUREDACH HÚ CHOMOCÁIN HIC DORMIT.

First recorded by Wakeman (1893, 88–9, fig. 43) in Teach Molaise (SL001-001005-). Removed to the National Museum of Ireland in 1971 (Register No. 1971: 1116). Its present location is recorded under the number DU018-216----. Stone slab (H: 0.429 m, W: 0.213 m, Th: 0.028 m) one face of which is filled with an inscription preceded by a simple incised cross and transcribed as: +OR DO MUREDACH HÚ CHOMOCÁIN HIC DORMIT Translation ‘Pray for Muredach Ó Chomocáin, he sleeps here’ It is a rare example of an early inscription combining Latin and Irish in a single dedication. 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

Date likely to the early Christian period (5th–9th century AD), given its form as a cross-slab. Such stones were often associated with monastic sites and may have had a liturgical or commemorative function.

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