What is recorded here

Clonmacnoise cross-slab CLN00526 is an eight-centimetre fragment, thin as a knife and no larger than a child's palm. A single line remains on its broken face, not a name but a mark made by someone who believed the dead could still be known. Davis found it in 1984, pulled from the same ground where centuries of prayers and burials had worn the world smooth. What the line pointed to has been lost, but the act of cutting it remains: a small defiance of forgetting.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00526 Dimensions: H 0.08, W 0.08, T 0.05 A single line remains. 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

Probably dates to the early medieval period, associated with Christian monastic activity at Clonmacnoise. Likely used as a funerary or commemorative marker, though its fragmentary state limits interpretation.

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