What is recorded here

Black stains from modern pollution obscure the crude interlace on a complete cross-slab standing in Clonmacnoise. The vertical inscription OR DOODRAN HAU EOLAIS still touches the median line where Graves first identified the stone in 1854. It is a small, sharp witness to the monastery’s buried lives.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00361 Dimensions: H 1.115, W 0.57, T 0.05 Outline expansional cross with median line. The circular central and semicircular terminal expansions are filled with crudely executed interlace. Inscription: 'OR DOODRAN HAU EOLAIS' inscribed vertically in two lines, one on each side of cross. Evidence of discovery: Graves 1854. Condition: Complete but black stains of pollution on slab. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-61, 64, 65, 324 Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p LIII, no. 131 Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 133, Fig 24, no. 16. 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 other Christian cross-slabs in Clonmacnoise. The design suggests a liturgical or commemorative function, possibly marking a grave or ecclesiastical boundary.

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