What is recorded here

Clonmacnoise Cross-slab CLN00502 is a small, very worn fragment holding either the centre of an outline cross or one stepped terminal, no wider than a palm and thin as a knife-edge. It survives without inscription, reduced to the least that can still be read as a cross. In a monastery where many stones marked death, this one may have belonged beneath a footpath, rain-worn until even its purpose blurred. What remains is not grandeur but repetition: a line drawn, broken, drawn again.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00502- Dimensions: H 0.15, W 0.16, T 0.04 A fragment with either the centre of an outline cross or the stepped terminal. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: A fragment, very worn.. The Clonmacnoise inventory was compiled by the Office of Public Works. A copy of the record for this slab is available for inspection in the relevant Archaeological Survey of Ireland (SMR) file. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

A 5th- to 7th-century AD Christian cross-slab fragment, likely associated with the monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise; its cross may represent early Christian symbolism or funerary markers.

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