Cross-slab in Clonmacnoise

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00362 Dimensions: H 0.66, W 0.501, T 0.118 Triple outline expansional cross with median line. The circular centre and looped semicircular termianls contain crude interlace. Inscription: 'OR DO GUARIU' inscribed vertically. Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822. Condition: Edge of slab damaged, stem terminal almost gone. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-454 Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XLVL, no. 117 Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 134, Fig 25, no. 6. 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

9th- to 10th-century AD; the cross-slabs of Clonmacnoise were often used as grave markers or high crosses, associated with early Christian monastic sites and may have had both religious and commemorative functions.