What is recorded here

That is the one available witness: a small worn cross slab from Clonmacnoise, no taller than thirty centimetres, its outline cross still drawn inside a three-line circular frame. It has no name to read and no date to claim, only the shape of making and the damage of time. A person cut that circle around the cross, perhaps for a child, perhaps for themselves, then left the place to rain and cart wheels. What is lost is not hidden in some grand chamber; it is scattered in ordinary forgetting, waiting for someone to notice the shape and remember the hand that made it.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00517 Dimensions: H 0.305, W 0.14, T 0.03 Outline cross inside a three line circular frame. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Fragment badly flaked and 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

Early medieval Christian cross-slab, likely 8th to 10th century, associated with the monastic site of Clonmacnoise; such crosses often symbolized Christian faith and may have marked burials or served as devotional objects.

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