What is recorded here

Breakers and time stripped the cross to a small ring and one arm, yet the double outline still traces a shape worthy of prayer. It lies in Clonmacnoise without names or dates, preserving only the geometry of devotion. What is missing is not loss but invitation: complete the cross in your mind and remember that visibility is not the same as truth.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00178 Dimensions: H 0.29, W 0.245, T 0.05 A small part of a double outline ring cross probably with square centre (?). No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984 Condition: Fragment with part of arm and ring 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 small cross-slab from the early medieval period, likely Christian in origin, associated with the monastic site of Clonmacnoise. The double outline ring cross suggests a liturgical or commemorative function, common in Irish monastic cemeteries.

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