What is recorded here

Clonmacnoise Cross-slab CLN00539 is a small worn fragment, fifteen centimetres tall and seventeen and a half centimetres wide, marked by a double outline cross or possibly part of a forgotten frame. It has no inscription, leaving its purpose open to imagination: a boundary marker, a devotional gift, or a fragment broken from something larger. In a place where so many names and events have been lost, that absence becomes the point. The cross remains visible only because someone cut through time, chisel in hand, making the unseen edge sharp enough to touch.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00539 Dimensions: H 0.15, W 0.175, T 0.06 A double outline cross or part of a frame (?). No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Worn fragment.. 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 small, worn fragment of a cross-slab, likely dating to the early medieval period (5th–9th century), associated with the monastic site of Clonmacnoise. The double outline cross may have had Christian symbolic or liturgical significance, typical of Irish high crosses.

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