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This cross-slab (H 0.51m; max. Wth 0.36m; T 0.07m) bears a single-line ringed cross with a pointed base and straight ended terminals with spirals. An inscription running down the sinister and up the dexter side reads: MAELMARTAIN. It was found during ground-clearance works in the vicinity of the church (WM015-001----) on Inchbofin island on Lough Ree, Co. Westmeath (Commissioners of Public Works 1913, Appendix E, Slab A) and is currently kept in the OPW depot in Athenry. See WM015-001008- for its original location. (Crawford 1913, 329, 1. (b); Macalister 1949, 79 no. 874)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 2 March 2023
Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland 1913 Eighty-first annual report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland with appendices for the year ending 31st March 1913. London. HMSO.
Crawford, H.S. 1913 A descriptive list of early cross-slabs and pillars. (cont.) Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 43, 151-69, 261-5, 326-34.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
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