What is recorded here

In the shadow of the great church at Clonmacnoise stood a small cross-slab, nine inches high and eight wide, its double outline and median line cutting through stone like a visible breath. The central expansion carried a fret pattern, the surviving terminal held interlace, and the letters TH marked the forgotten person buried beneath. Macalister saw it in 1949, but the slab has since been lost, leaving only a hole in the ground and a name half-remembered.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00352 Dimensions: H 9ins, W 8ins Fragment of an double outline expansional cross with a median line. The central expansion (?) contains fret pattern and there is interlace in the surviving terminal (?). Inscription: The letters 'TH'. Evidence of discovery: Macalister 1949. Condition: Now lost. Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 134, Fig 25, no. 13. 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 cross and interlacing may signify a funerary or commemorative monument, common in monastic sites like Clonmacnoise.

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