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Cross-slab in Clonmacnoise

Cross-slab

What is recorded here

Clonmacnoise cross-slab CLN00608 is a small broken fragment, eighteen centimetres tall and twenty-four wide, with no visible cross but the worn name AIULL still barely holding against time. It is the kind of stone that may have marked an ordinary person beside a road, a child, a teacher or a traveller, yet distance and weather have rubbed most of the claim away. What remains is not nothing; it is a name caught at the edge of forgetting, small enough to lift but heavy with everyone the field no longer distinguishes.
Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00608 Dimensions: H 0.18, W 0.24, T 0.05 No cross recorded. Inscription: A very worn inscription 'AIULL'. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Fragment with part of an inscription.. 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

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