Cross-slab in Clonmacnoise

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00270 Dimensions: Unknown. 'Three concentric circles from which project four arms with rectangular expanding heads, between which runs a circular band with an interlace pattern'. Inscription: None survives. Evidence of discovery: Drawn by Petrie at Clonmacnoise in 1822. Condition: Lost after 1822. Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p LXVIII, no. 164. 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 (5th–9th century AD). The design may represent a Christian cross combined with pre-Christian symbolic motifs, possibly reflecting the fusion of pagan and Christian traditions in early Irish art.