What is recorded here

Breakage and time have stolen most of the cross, but the surviving fragment still displays a looped terminal and central interlace. Petrie saw the complete slab in 1822 and read part of an Irish inscription naming Muirgus. What is left is small enough to hold, yet it carries a whole life into Clonmacnoise.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00169 Dimensions: H 0.265, W 0.165, T 0.05 Fragment of a square looped terminal with interlace ornament in the centre. Petrie recorded the slab with a ring cross with four lozenges at the centre. Inscription: Recorded by Petrie '[OR D]O MUIRGUS … DEIC'. Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822 Condition: Fragment. Seen complete by Petrie and Macalister. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81- Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 123, Fig 17, no. 6 Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p LI, no. 128. 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

9th- to 10th-century AD; likely a Christian grave slab associated with the monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise, featuring interlace ornament typical of High Cross art and possibly linked to early Irish monastic tradition.

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