Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
Situated in the SW corner of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra. A cross-base (L 0.81m; Wth 1.27m; H 0.27m) trapezoidal in shape and split through the socket into two pieces. Only the top few centimetres are shaped which according to Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 48) suggests that it was intended to be embedded in the ground. The upper surface is dressed with a groove forming a moulding around the perimeter and the SW corner has been chamfered. A worn inscription, in Irish, in one horizontal line is set along the W (longest) side and reads: ‘+ILAD IDECHENBOIR’ (+Tomb of the ten persons). The cross-base stands NE of the centre of an almost square area (ext. L 2.4m N-S; Wth 2.3m) defined by a low kerb of thin upright stones. Some packing stones and other stones protruding from the ground may be all that remains of what Macalister (1916-17, 147) described as ‘what seems to be a low carn, covered with earth, and grass-grown’. The identity of the people buried here is not known. Iniscealtra is a national monument in state care, no. 5. (Macalister 1916-17, 146-7; Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 47-50)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 29 September 2015
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.