What is recorded here

The smallest cross-slab in Clonmacnoise is a seventeen-centimetre fragment bearing an outline cross with triangular arms inside a single-line circle. Its larger companion cross has vanished, leaving no inscription and no name to identify the dead person it marked. What remains is a tight circular frame around a sharp-crossed shape, small enough to hold in both hands yet heavy with the lost life beneath it.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00101 Dimensions: H 0.175, W 0.14, T 0.06 Outline cross inside a single line circular frame. The cross arms are triangular in shape. There was another 'main' cross on the slab but this is now lost. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984 Condition: Only a fragment survives.. 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 (7th–10th century AD), consistent with other Christian monuments at Clonmacnoise. The cross may have had a liturgical or commemorative function, reflecting the site's importance as an early monastic foundation.

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