What is recorded here

Breakage and cement scar the cross-arm, but the ring still touches the arms on a slender slab beside the Shannon. It belongs to Clonmacnoise, where stone marked more lives than memory has kept. The missing fragment may have fallen in flood, been carried off, or simply stopped being seen. What remains is a narrow band of making, witness and loss.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00173 Dimensions: H 0.145, W 0.85, T 0.04 Double outline ring cross. The ring appears to join the arms. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984 Condition: Part of arm and ring of cross. Cement damaged.. 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 ringed cross may symbolize early Irish Christian identity or serve as a funerary marker.

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