What is recorded here

Half a metre of stone, no taller than a man’s forearm stretched wide, yet heavy enough to bury a name forever. The looped end still shows faint fretwork, but the cross and every line that gave the dead a shape have rubbed away. It lies in Clonmacnoise without inscription, a small lost threshold where forgetting began.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00395 Dimensions: H 0.16, W 0.335, T 0.085 Looped semicircular terminal with a very worn fret pattern. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Very worn fragment of a 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

Early Christian period, likely 7th to 10th century. The looped semicircular terminal and fret pattern are characteristic of Irish high crosses, possibly used as a grave marker or Christian symbol in a monastic context.

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