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Cross-slab in Clonmacnoise

Cross-slab

What is recorded here

No visible cross appears on the broken stone, yet it is still called a cross-slab. It stands in Clonmacnoise as a small white fragment, no taller than a child’s arm reach, with two uncertain letters marking one forgotten life. The monastery gave that person a place beside its saints, and the stone has kept the shape of that choice through every storm since.
Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00619 Dimensions: H 0.20, W 0.175 No cross recorded. Inscription: Two letters 'CA[?]' Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Fragment.. 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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