What is recorded here

Thirty inches of missing stone and a broken cross edge. A small slab, not a monument, holds a double outline cross with a circular centre and flaring terminals. It lies damaged in County Offaly, recorded without inscription, yet precise enough to show that Clonmacnoise buried people beneath ordinary stone as well as grand marble.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00273 Dimensions: H 0.20, W 0.15, T 0.075 Double outline cross (?) with circular centre and terminal expansions. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984 Condition: Damaged fragment with part of border and terminal.. 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 Christian period, c. 7th–10th century AD. The cross design may have had a Christian symbolic function, possibly associated with a burial or memorial context.

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