Cross-slab in Clonmacnoise

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00313 Dimensions: 0.469 x 0.458 x 0.055cm 0.57 x 0.57 x 0.059cm Outline expansional cross with a median line, blank semicircular terminal expansions and circular centre with a trieskilon. The cross is broken in two along the stem. Inscription: 'OR D[O] BONUIT' The slab is not flat causing the gap between the 'O' and 'N'. Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822. Condition: Broken in two and part of slab missing. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-347, 900 Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p LIV, no. 133 Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 134, Fig 25, no. 7. 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-slab likely served a funerary or commemorative function, reflecting the Christian tradition associated with the monastic site of Clonmacnoise. Its design may incorporate both symbolic Christian and possibly earlier pagan motifs, common in early Irish high crosses.