What is recorded here

Thirty centimetres of missing stone erase most of the name, but the punch marks still show where DUN CIR entered the marble. The cross expands into blank circles, a suggestion rather than a picture, as if the carver withheld what the chisel already knew. Clonmacnoise kept the fragment instead of discarding it, proving that a broken edge can still point toward the person it marked.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00299 Dimensions: H 0.45, W 0.40, T 0.02 Outline expansional cross with median line. The semicircular terminal and circular central expansions are blank. Punch marks of cutting are still evident in the inscription and cross. Inscription: Part of a horizontal inscriptioin 'DUN CIR' below the arm of the cross. Evidence of discovery: OPW 1954-58 Condition: Badly weathered fragment. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-182, 895 Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 132, Fig 23, no. 17. 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 early medieval period (7th–10th century AD), consistent with other Christian cross-slabs in Clonmacnoise. The design may have had a liturgical or commemorative function, reflecting the site's importance as an early monastic foundation.

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