What is recorded here

Clonmacnoise holds a small, badly worn cross-slab where triple outlines and faint spirals still emerge from the damage. It is not a grand monument, but a fragment large enough to show that someone cut a crossing into stone and laid it beside the living or the dead. Rain, foot traffic and time have erased much of the pattern, yet the median line and circular centre remain visible enough to keep the shape alive. The loss is not emptiness; it is an invitation to watch what the stone still remembers.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00305 Dimensions: H 0.22, W 0.185, T 0.075 Triple outline expansional cross with median line. The semicircular terminal is blank while the circular centre has spirals. The slab is so badly worn it is difficult to decipher the exact pattern. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984 Condition: Worn fragment with part of centre, arm and terminal.. 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

A 9th- to 10th-century Christian cross-slab, likely associated with the monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise; the spiral motifs suggest early Insular artistic traditions and may symbolize spiritual or cosmic themes.

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