What is recorded here

Breakers took the top and sides, leaving only the narrow stem of a cross that once rose above a forgotten grave. The chipper edge and missing arms suggest violence rather than age, as if someone struck the symbol instead of chipping it accidentally. A thin rectangle of stone remains, small enough to carry but heavy enough to remember.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00668 Dimensions: H 0.38, W 0.40, T 0.065 Probably the pointed cross stem of an outline cross. The end of the stem has been recorded. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Fragment with part of stem.. 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 11th century AD, based on the style of the cross. Such crosses were often associated with Christian monastic sites like Clonmacnoise and may have marked burials or served as devotional symbols.

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