What is recorded here

One hundred years of wind and rain have not erased the cross, but they have blurred the name beneath it. The chamber fits one adult body and no more, yet the cross still reaches upward because the living remembered that it belonged to someone. The lateral knobs wear fret marks like rope twists, while the top and base knot into interlace, as if stone had learned patience from water. A forgotten person stands inside that small shape, named only by the letters left behind.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00377 Dimensions: H 0.705, W 0.29 - 0.26 Outline expansional cross with median line and semicircular terminals, the lateral ones with fret patterns and the upper and stem terminals with interlace knots. The centre has a fret pattern in it. Both cross and slab taper to the base. Inscription: 'OR DO GILLAOENA' a very worn inscription. The 'A' could be a 'U'. Evidence of discovery: Condition: Very worn; right termianl slightly damaged. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-453. 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 9th to 11th century AD, consistent with the high cross tradition in Ireland. The design may have had Christian symbolic meaning, possibly used as a grave marker or commemorative monument, and may be associated with the monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise.

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