What is recorded here

That is the smallest visible piece of a lost cross, no larger than a palm, saved from the ground at Clonmacnoise. Its looped end may have carried interlace, but time has worn the detail into a smooth, mysterious curve. A person may have stood before the finished cross, touched its edge, and prayed without knowing that one day only this fragment would remain to mark the shape.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00422 Dimensions: H 0.14, W 0.07, T 0.025 Fragment of a looped terminal possibly semisircular(?) and possibly containing interlace. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Worn fragment of a terminal.. 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 interlace motif typical of Insular Christian art. Such fragments may have been part of a cross or ecclesiastical monument associated with the monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise.

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