What is recorded here

Breakers took the chamber and river took the hall, but this small cross fragment still stands in County Offaly. Its double outline, median line and triple arm spiral carve a tiny chamber where forgotten prayers may have gathered. Clonmacnoise has given up much of its shape, yet this fragment keeps one angle of that lost world alive.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00336 Dimensions: H 0.155, W 0.24, T 0.045 Double outline expansional cross with median line and central expansion with a triple arm spiral. There is no evidence of what form the ornament took on the semicircular terminal. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Fragment with part of centre and arm of cross.. 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 early Christian insular art in Ireland. The cross and spiral motifs may signify Christian symbolism and possibly have connections to pre-Christian artistic traditions.

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