What is recorded here

Half a metre of thin stone, it stands in Clonmacnoise with a broken arm and a name carved in four vertical lines. Ordo Fogartach, son of Broenain, is still readable beside an expansional cross whose blank circles never received decoration. Petrie saw the left terminal damaged in 1822; that much has gone entirely since. The slab is small enough to carry and old enough to have outlived every hand that held it.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00287 Dimensions: H 0.535, W 0.045, T 0.03 An outline expansional cross with median line. The circular central expansion and semicircular terminals are blank. There are two linear crosses with V-shaped terminals carved over the main cross. Inscription: 'OR]DO FOGARTACH M BROENAIN' inscribed in four lines vertically Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822 saw the slab complete except for damage to the left arm terminal. Condition: Left terminal and upper cross arm gone. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-176 Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XLV, no. 115 Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 132, Fig 23, 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

A Christian cross-sl ab, likely dating to the early medieval period (7th–10th century), associated with the monastic site of Clonmacnoise; such crosses often marked graves or had liturgical significance.

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