What is recorded here

Cross-slab (present location) in Inishmurray is a cross-slab (present location) in Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland. It is a 0.58 m high, 0.31 m wide and 0.1 m thick fragment moved from Teach Molaise in the Cashel to the Schoolhouse/OPW conservation store in 1989. One face shows part of a cross shaft beside two incised rectangular panels, 0.115 m and 0.065 m wide, while the shaft carries five unevenly spaced false relief oval bosses averaging 0.025 m in diameter. The other face has a 0.03 m wide vertical cut with a slightly asymmetrical pronged expansion 0.05 m wide.

Brought to the Schoolhouse/OPW conservation store from Teach Molaise (SL001-001005-) in the Cashel (SL001-001001-) in 1989. Slab fragment (H: 0.58 m, W: 0.31 m, Th: 0.1 m) with a portion of the shaft of a cross motif surviving on each face. On one side the upper part of the surviving portion is flanked by incised rectangular panels, one 0.115 m wide, the other 0.065 m wide. The shaft is decorated with five unevenly spaced, false relief oval bosses averaging 0.025 m in diameter. On the other face a vertical cut (W: 0.03m) is decorated with a slightly asymmetrical, pronged expansion (W: 0.05 m). 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: 12 March 2018

Dated to the early medieval period (c. 7th–10th century), the cross-slab likely served a Christian commemorative or liturgical function. Such stones are often associated with monastic sites or early Christian settlements, and may have been part of a high cross or memorial marker.

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