What is recorded here

The Cross-slab in Clonmacnoise is a lost grave marker in County Offaly, Ireland, recorded as an expansional cross with a triple spiral and looped terminals. It bears the inscription DO CHAING, a name or phrase now detached from the person it marked. Petrie drew it in 1822, capturing its shape before time and neglect removed it from the ground. What remains is a line of marks and a absence, the kind of loss that makes ancient places feel both near and unreachable.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00320 Dimensions: Unknown. Expansional cross with circular central expansion containing a triple spiral and looped semicircular terminal expansions. Inscription: 'DO CHAING' Evidence of discovery: Drawn by Petrie ar Clonmacnoise in 1822. Condition: Now lost. Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p LXVI, no. 157. 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

A 9th- to 10th-century Christian cross-slab, likely associated with the monastic site of Clonmacnoise; its triple spiral and expanded arms may symbolize sacred geometry or the Trinity, reflecting early Irish Christian art and spiritual beliefs.

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