What is recorded here

Cross-slab CLN00435 at Clonmacnoise is a small worn fragment preserving part of an expansional cross with a median line and semicircular terminal. It measures 0.27 m high and 0.31 m wide, and an illegible inscription still runs down the left side. The stone may have marked a grave beside the old monastery, but rain and time have taken most of its meaning. What remains is a sharp cross shape, broken and quiet, waiting for someone to read what the church no longer remembers.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00435 Dimensions: H 0.27, W 0.31 Outline expansional cross with median line and semicircular terminal expansion or circular centre. Inscription: Very worn illegible inscription down the left side. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Very worn fragment with part of arm and expansion.. 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

Date likely to the early medieval period, given the cross-slabs found in the Clonmacnoise area are typically Christian and associated with monastic sites from the 7th to 11th centuries. The cross may have had a funerary or commemorative function, common for grave-slabs in monastic cemeteries.

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