What is recorded here

Clonmacnoise in County Offaly holds a cross-slab where ancient faith and forgetting still touch. The stone survives the collapse of empires and the patience of moss, waiting for a hand rough enough to read its marks without fear. It is not a display cabinet or a dead fact; it is a room where human certainty must be humbled before leaving.

See Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p 74, LXXIII, no. 175. See Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 124, Fig 19, no. 6 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Probably dating to the early medieval period (7th–10th century), this cross-slab is associated with the monastic site of Clonmacnoise and may have served as a grave marker or commemorative monument. Its Christian symbolism reflects the spread of Christianity in Ireland and the region's importance as a religious and scholarly centre.

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