Inveraray Castle, Grave-slab
Grave Slab (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Inveraray Castle, Grave-slab
Classification Grave Slab (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Iona, Grave-slab; Inveraray Castle Policies
Canmore ID 23345
Site Number NN00NE 11
NGR NN 096 092
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23345
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Inveraray
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NN00NE 11 096 092
See also NN00NE 15.00.
A fragment of a recumbent grave-slab, measuring 2'9" x 1'1", is on view outside Inveraray Castle (NN 09 09). It was removed from Iona.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
There is no knowledge of this stone at the castle.
Visited by OS (DWR) 7 March 1973.
Now at Inveraray Castle (see NN00NE 11); removed from Reilig Odhrain about 1854. Fragment of a slab, 0.84m long. It bears an incomplete Latin cross with forked terminals, and a half-uncial Old Irish inscription reading: + OR(OIT) DO MAILFAT[AR/IC] ('A prayer for Mail-Phatraic'). The last four letters of the inscription were lost about 1852.
Professor K H Jackson dated it epigraphically to the 9th century.
I Fisher 2001.
