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A recumbent cross-slab situated beside the W wall of the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra (19.3m from the S wall and 1.8m from the W wall). Noted by Macalister (1916-17, 159, no. 67) as of ‘twelfth-century type’. Described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 87-9) as a large cross-slab (H 1.16m; Wth 0.43m; T 0.5m). The face is incised with an outline Latin cross with hollowed angles. The top and shaft are open. The arms meet lines which frame the length of the slab. The cross sits on a base of unusual shape carved in low relief, consisting of an inverted triangle with large flat bosses at the upper corners and rounded apex. The end of the slab is shaped to a rounded point. An incomplete inscription in two horizontal lines across the top of the cross reads ‘SEC ||H||NAILL [-]DOMAEL’. Taking the lower line first the text reads ‘…do Máel Sechnaill’.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 27 October 2015
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