What is recorded here

Nine centimetres of stone, no taller than a child’s palm, hold the whole of Clonmacnoise. The cross is cut in outline with a median line, but the name is gone and the arms are broken. What remains is enough to show that someone stood here, marked the dead, and trusted the shape to carry the request into eternity.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00537 Dimensions: H 0.095, W 0.18, T 0.03 Fragment of an outline cross with median line. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Fragment of cross.. 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 Christian period, likely 7th to 10th century. The cross-slab may have been used as a funerary or commemorative marker, reflecting the Christian heritage of Clonmacnoise, a historically significant monastic site.

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