What is recorded here

Breakage cannot erase the identity of Clonmacnoise. The cross still stands in a small slab, its looped ends and fret pattern unchanged. AC and half an A remain visible beside the broken line. What the loss removed is not clarity, but the completed shape that once gave the marking room to speak.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00390 Dimensions: H 0.242, W 0.225, T 0.025 Fragment of an outline expansional cross with median line. The semicircular terminal has looped ends and a fret pattern. Inscription: Part of an inscription 'AC' and part of an 'A'. Evidence of discovery: Macalister 1898-1905. Condition: Fragment with a terminal on it. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-201, 242, 951. 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 (7th–10th century AD), consistent with Christian monastic activity in Clonmacnoise. The cross design suggests a liturgical or commemorative function, possibly associated with a burial or ecclesiastical site.

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