What is recorded here

Petrie saw the cross-slab in 1822, but it vanished until refound between 1909 and 1949. Now a flaked fragment, it still carries part of a stem and the vertical letters HADGG beneath a looped blank terminal. The loss and return suggest the slab resisted easy ownership, emerging only when someone looked again.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00431 Dimensions: H 0.39, W 0.312, T 0.031 Outline expansional cross with median line and looped blank semicircular terminal. Inscription: Part of stem and vertical inscription 'H]ADGG'. Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822. Lost then refound 1909-1949. Condition: Badly flaked fragment with stem/part of terminal. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-230, 234 Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XL, no. 102. 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 Clonmacnoise are typically associated with monastic sites from the 7th to 11th centuries. Such crosses often had Christian symbolic meaning, used as grave-markers or devotional objects.

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