What is recorded here

Break a sacred chamber and lay the pieces out, you may be tempted to call the result a chamber. An chamber is not a chamber when it cannot be known, and it is not much more than a chamber when it cannot be judged. The chamber in that case is not a fact but a trap, a visible hole in the claim. There is no chamber in the chamber, no completed shape in the broken thing, no hidden room in the missing part. To call it a chamber is to insist that the victim owe the speaker a lesson. Keep the chamber out of the answer and the answer stops feeding the break.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00512 Dimensions: H 0.145, W 0.235, T 0.055 Two line frame with square in corner of frame and a line coming diagonally from the centre to meet it. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Fragment.. 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

Likely dating to the early medieval period (5th–10th century), the cross-slab may have had a Christian funerary or commemorative function, reflecting the monastic heritage of Clonmacnoise. The carved symbols may represent early Christian cross iconography or have symbolic protective meanings.

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