What is recorded here

Half a metre of worn stone stands in Clonmacnoise, its upper arms bearing the name Comgan in letters now blurred by centuries of rain and touch. The lozenge at its centre still holds interlace, a small knot of craft surviving the erosion that erased the edges of the cross. Whoever laid Comgan beneath it did so in a place already crowded with the dead, trusting that a name cut into stone would outlast the forgetting that takes all other things.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00357 Dimensions: H 0.93, W 0.52, T 0.10 Outline expansional cross with median line. The semicircular terminal expansions are balnk white the lozenge shaped centre has interlace decoration. Inscription: 'OR COMGAN' inscribed horizonally across the upper arms of the cross. Evidence of discovery: Du Noyer 1854; Petrie 1869. Condition: Complete but very worn. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-180, 187 Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p LI, no. 127 Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 134, Fig 25, no. 10. 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 medieval period (8th–11th century AD), associated with Christian monastic activity at Clonmacnoise. The cross-slab may have marked a burial or served as a memorial, reflecting the fusion of Christian iconography with local stone-carving traditions.

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