What is recorded here

On Holy Island, the stone marked the hours for St Caimin’s Church before men invented clocks. Now it stands in an Athenry depot, still wearing its five-rayed semicircle like a forgotten promise. The sundial does not belong to a museum or a manual; it belongs to the living world, where measurement and memory are the same act.

This sundial (L 1.46m; Wth at top 0.4m; Wth at base 0.36m; T 0.1m) is currently located in the OPW depot in Athenry, Co. Galway. When recorded by Macalister (1916-17, 167, no. 92, and plate XXIV), it was on the S wall of the nave of St Caimin’s Church (CL029-009011-) on Inis Cealtra (Holy Island), Co. Clare. It consisted of 'a slab with a hole for the gnomon, pierced through the stone, and a semicircle with five rays below it.’ See CL029-009034---- for original location. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 February 2023

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