What is recorded here

One small cross-slab in Clonmacnoise still stands complete, no taller than a child’s arm span, its arcs and triangular arms drawn inside a single circular line. It has no name carved on it, only a rounded head and a weathered surface that suggests hands shaped it before burial. Among the many stones of that old place, it is the kind of marker someone could have touched often, perhaps for a child, a friend, or a forgotten monk.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00111 Dimensions: H 0.245, W 0.22, T 0.016 Outline cross of arcs with a circular centre (very similar to CL00112 and CL00113) and triangular shaped arms inside a single line circular frame. The slab does seem to have been worked. It has a rounded head. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: OPW 1954-58 Condition: Complete. Uneven surface, weathered. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-51, 716. 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

Dateable to the early medieval period, likely 8th to 10th century AD, the cross-slab reflects Christian symbolism associated with the monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise. Such crosses were often used as grave markers or commemorative monuments, signifying religious devotion and social status.

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