Macalistek — The History and Antiquities of Inis Ceattra. 153 



marked " carved stone found near altar "). Slab, measuring 3 feet 9 inches by 

 2 feet 6 inches by '6 inches, bearing a cross much resembling the Clonmacnois 

 type of this period, and very probably the work of a Clonmacnois 

 artist. It is a Latin cross, with circular expansion at the centre, 

 having a spiral pattern of three marginal centre-points and one centre- 

 point in the middle of the circle ; an identical pattern appears at Clon- 

 macnois, and is analysed at p. 69 of my book on the Clonmacnois slabs. 

 The terminal expansions are semicircular, and contain key-patterns of 

 common type. It is curious that this elaborate cross should not be accom- 

 panied by any inscription. 



(30). CNS 1. Plate XXLI, fig 10; BW, plate 6, no. 2, where the stone 

 is shown in its proper place, at the south side of the altar of St. Caimin's 

 Church. A slab 3 feet 2 inches by 1 foot 7 inches by 3 inches, with a cross 

 having square expansions at the centre and the terminals. Inscription 

 inverted at the head of the slab, reading OR "OO ITItfllcllAT). There is a 

 small semicircular hole in the lower line of the dexter arm of the cross. No 

 Murchad connected with Inis Cealtra is recorded in the Annals. 



(31). G 10. Plate XX, fig. 6 ; BW, plate 1, fig. E. This very interesting 

 slab is 5 feet 3^ inches by 1 foot 10 inches. It bears a Latin cross having 

 a circular expansion at the centre and semicircular expansions at the 

 terminals. The central expansion has a lozenge with four ovals round it, 

 and the lowest terminal expansion has half of the same pattern, with the 

 difference that the lozenge in the centre is hollowed, whereas the lozenge in 

 the terminal is only outlined. There are the outlines of two shod feet cut 

 on the sinister side of the slab ; the right foot above the arm of the cross, 

 the left foot below it. These probably indicate that the person commemo- 

 rated by the slab died on the island when on pilgrimage ; and with this 

 accords the inscription, which commemorates him as a stranger — COSCRACll 

 l/A1511GCh, " Coscrach the Leinsterman." Of course it is quite impossible 

 that this should be the Anchorite Coscrach, as the slab cannot be so old as 

 the date of the truaghdn. 



The very extraordinary inscription at Llanelltyd, Merionethshire, may be 

 referred to in connexion with this stone. It is figured in Westwood's 

 " Lapidarium Walliae " (Plate Ixxiv), and later has been visited and de- 

 scribed by Sir J. Ehys (Archaeologia Cambrensis, ser. v, vol xiv, p. 138). The 

 inscription according to the latter reads — Vestigiu{m) Reu hie tenetur in 

 cainte lapidis et ipsemet antequam peregre profectus est. " The footprint of lieu 

 is here preserved on the top of the stone, and he himself (was here ?) lill he 

 went abroad." This is the translation of Sir J. Rhys, who supplies a 

 conjectural verb after ipsemet. 



