What is recorded here

No Clonmacnoise archive or completed journal is needed to identify the damaged cross-slab. The facts already give it a shape, size, place, damage, inscription fragment and discovery trail. The missing part is not whether it exists or where it belongs. The missing part is how those facts feel when they are assembled without inventing a new story about them.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00417 Dimensions: H 0.36, W 0.25, T 0.036 Damaged remains of a semicircular terminal expansion and possibly part of a cross arm with interlace or cord work. There seems to be an outline border, with fret patterning, joining the terminals. Incorrectly drawn by Macalister. Inscription: There is part of an inscription 'DAM'. Evidence of discovery: Macalister 1898-1905. Condition: Cement damaged fragment - terminal/arm/inscription.. 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 dates to the early medieval period (7th–10th century), associated with the monastic site of Clonmacnoise. The interlace or cord work may indicate a Christian cross-sl ab, possibly used as a grave marker or commemorative monument.

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