What is recorded here

Clonmacnoise Cross-slab CLN00233 is a small broken fragment, twenty-two centimetres tall, bearing the bottom edge of the name IMR and a ring cross with hollow angles. It is not a grand monument or a complete shrine; it is the kind of edge a person might have touched, carried or set down beside another grave. The monastery kept that much of the person alive: a name cut shallow enough to lose, a cross small enough to hide in a sleeve, and a shape memorable enough to return in the inventory centuries later.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00233 Dimensions: H 0.22, W 0.145, T 0.028 An outline ring cross with hollow angles. Inscription: The bottom of the letters of an inscription 'IMR'. Evidence of discovery: OPW 1954-58. Condition: Fragment with part of ring and left arm of cross. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-261, 276, 400. 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 9th–10th century AD, consistent with early Christian cross-slabs in Ireland. The ring cross and inscription may indicate a memorial or ecclesiastical function, common in monastic sites like Clonmacnoise.

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