What is recorded here

An eleven-inch stone fragment from Clonmacnoise is now lost, but it once held the centre and one arm of a plain three-line cross. Macalister saw it between 1898 and 1905, likely before modern recording turned that quiet monastery into a catalogued field. Without an inscription, the cross may have marked an ordinary person, a forgotten worker or a child whose name never needed carving. Its disappearance removes a small bridge between the living town and the buried centuries beneath it.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00456 Dimensions: H 11.75ins, W 6.25ins, T 1.75ins Fragment of the centre and one arm of a three line cross. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Macalister 1898-1905. Condition: Now lost.. 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 fragment may have been part of a funerary or commemorative monument, reflecting the Christian heritage of Clonmacnoise, a historically significant monastic site.

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