What is recorded here

Lost in Offaly, the Mailduin cross-slab once stood in Clonmacnoise, its outline cross and median line marking a life now reduced to a name in stone. Petrie saw it in 1872, but time or greed took it back. What remains is a ghost of a ghost: a cross drawn in memory, a line of distinction, and a dead man’s name refusing to dissolve.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00567 Dimensions: Unknown. Outline cross (?) with a median line in a two line frame. Inscription: 'MAILDUIN' Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1872. Condition: Now lost. Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p PL I, no. 1 Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p I, no. 1. 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

Date likely to the early Christian period, 7th–9th century AD. The name "Mailduin" may indicate a local figure or saint, and the cross-slab would have served as a grave marker or memorial within a monastic or ecclesiastical context.

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