What is recorded here

Clonmacnoise cross-slab CLN00528 is a small worn fragment, forty centimetres tall and twenty-five centimetres wide, marked by two broad pock lines but no inscription. It survived in a place where stone was broken, moved and remembered by others, perhaps belonging to someone whose name never needed writing because the community already knew them. Rain, foot traffic and time have rubbed it until it becomes less a record and more a feeling: a thin cold plate of lost life, still standing among the dead.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00528 Dimensions: H 0.40, W 0.25, T 0.037 Fragment with two broad pock marked lines. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Very worn and flaked.. 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 cross-slab, likely 8th to 10th century, associated with the monastic site of Clonmacnoise; its worn condition and pock-marked lines may reflect weathering and possible symbolic or decorative Christian iconography.

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