What is recorded here

No.54 is a small square stone, 41 cm wide and 5.4 cm thick, carrying an outline cross whose arms complete the inner line of a two-part frame. Steps appear in the middle and in the inner corners, but no name remains to identify the person buried beneath it. Rain has worn the bottom edge and softened the edges of the frame. The cross still stands out, not as a monument to fame, but as a marker that someone was loved enough to be remembered without words.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00064 Dimensions: H 0.41, W 0.41, T 0.054 Outline cross with stepped centre inside a two line frame, the inner line of which is made up by the cross arms. There are steps in the inner angles of the frame. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: OPW 1954-58 Condition: Weathered. Lower edge of frame damaged. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-100, 479, 764. 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

Date likely to the early Christian period (7th–10th century AD). The cross design may have had a liturgical or commemorative function, reflecting the monastic significance of Clonmacnoise.

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