What is recorded here

In Clonmacnoise, a broken cross-slab lies with its inner line drifting from the outer, as if the carver lost the thread or the stone refused to obey. It measures less than half a metre high now, yet it must once have stood large enough to mark a grave from a distance. The angles are hollow, the surface flaking, and no name remains to tell whose hands made that shaky double line.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00092 Dimensions: H 0.44, W 0.76, T 0.085 Surviving arms and stem of cross show a double outline cross with hollow angles very crudely executed. The inner line of the cross does not follow the outer line. This must have been an extremely large cross slab. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984 Condition: Fragment. Surface badly worn and flaking. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-1365. 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

Probably dates to the early medieval period (7th–10th century), reflecting Christian symbolism common in monastic sites like Clonmacnoise. The crude execution suggests it may have been a local or memorial cross slab, possibly associated with burial or territorial marking.

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