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Cross-slab in Clonmacnoise

Cross-slab

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Clonmacnoise preserves a broken ring cross where looping upper arms and hollow angles still trace the shape of an abandoned prayer. Small enough to lift, the fragment may have marked a name now lost, while its smooth loops suggest hands that touched the stone repeatedly.
Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00190 Dimensions: H 0.37, W 0.25, T 0.10 An outline ring cross with hollow angles. The upper cross arm ends in loops. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Fragment with upper/left arms and centre of cross.. 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
A 9th- to 10th-century Christian cross-slab, likely associated with the monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise; its ring cross and looped arms may reflect early Irish monastic art and Christian symbolism.

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