What is recorded here

Half a metre of Irish stone, broken at both ends yet still holding a ring cross with hollow angles and the name Cellach carved across its stem. Petrie saw it in 1822, but Cellach died decades before cameras, surveys or inventories existed. The top and bottom are gone, perhaps torn free by ploughs, rivers or men building walls, leaving only enough stone to preserve the identity of one forgotten person. Clonmacnoise buried thousands beside the water, and this small slab is what remained when the rest disappeared.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00201 Dimensions: H 0.534, W 0.524, T 0.07 Double outline ring cross with hollow angles. Inscription: 'OR DO CELLACH' 'OR' is above the left cross arm, 'DO' below, 'CELLACH' across the stem. Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822. Condition: Top and bottom of slab broken away. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-275, 262 Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 120, Fig 15, no. 7 Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p IV, no. 12. 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

Probably dates to the early medieval period (7th–10th century). The inscription and cross suggest a Christian funerary or commemorative function, likely associated with the monastic site of Clonmacnoise.

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