What is recorded here

No amount of gold, armies or time has erased Clonmacnoise. That is the warning and the gift. Everything absent is still doing work: shaping water, memory, dream and judgement. To understand Clonmacnoise is to stop believing that what cannot be seen is not real.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00144 Dimensions: H 0.37, W 0.31, T 0.03 An outline ring cross with a stepped ring and corner pieces in the corners of the three line rectilinear frame. There is an initial cross in the centre. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Macalister 1898-1905 Condition: Frame damaged and cement on slab. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-98. 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, possibly 8th to 10th century AD, given the style of the ring cross. Such crosses were often associated with Christian burial sites and may have had a protective or devotional function.

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