Cross-slab in Clonmacnoise

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00098 Dimensions: H 0.47, W 0.325, T 0.03 Half the cross design only survives showing an outline cross with hollow angles and a median line inside a two line rectilinear frame, the inner line of which is made up by the outer line of the cross. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: OPW 1954-58 Condition: Fragment. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-80, 492, 799. 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 9th- to 10th-century Christian cross-slab, likely associated with the monastic site of Clonmacnoise; the partial cross design suggests a liturgical or commemorative function, common in early Irish monastic cemeteries.