What is recorded here

An outline ring cross with hollow angles stands in Clonmacnoise, bearing the damaged name OR [AR] HUDRINE above its upper arm. The line of the cross was made up forcefully by punch marks, perhaps completed after damage rather than carved whole. That stubborn restoration turns a broken memorial into a witness, preserving the identity of the dead and the effort of the living who refused to let the stone disappear.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00195 Dimensions: H 0.70, W 0.45 An outline ring cross with hollow angles. The stem ends in two inturned spirals. The line of the cross has been very forcefully made up by punch marks. Inscription: Inscribed in two lines above the upper arm of the cross 'OR [AR] HUDRINE' Evidence of discovery: Graves 1854 Condition: Almost complete; inscription damaged. National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-625, 903, 908 Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XXVIII, no. 57 Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 120, Fig 15, no. 10. 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, associated with early Christian Ireland. The ring cross with inturned spirals may symbolize both Christian and pre-Christian motifs, reflecting a fusion of traditions in a monastic context.

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