What is recorded here

Clonmacnoise cross-slab CLN00149 still stands in County Offaly, a double outline ring cross with a square centre and a worn name beside the upper arm. Hennessy and Graves made an 1869 rubbing before the stones forgot much more, and the rubbing keeps what the rain has taken from the edge. Angus may have been a boy, a teacher or a traveller who stopped being a traveller; the slab no longer says which. It says only that someone lived hard enough to be remembered and died young enough to be mourned without ceremony.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00149 Dimensions: H 0.844, W 0.755, T 0.10 A double outline ring cross with square centre and single line ring. The inscription runs horizontally on either side of the upper arm of the cross. Inscription: 'OR DO ANGUS' the 'R' is very worn and the upper part of the 'U' has flaked away. Evidence of discovery: 1869 rubbing by Hennessy and Graves Condition: Complete but very worn. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-1142 Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 119, Fig 14, no. 9. 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 9th to 11th century AD, reflecting the early Christian period in Ireland. The cross and inscription may mark a Christian burial or memorial, typical of monastic sites like Clonmacnoise.

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