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Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00153
Dimensions: H 0.498, W 0.375, T 0.018
An outline ring cross with square centre. The ring links up the square terminals. The slab may have had an elongated cross stem or have been as Petrie had it. There is a small mark in the centre perhaps related to layout.
Inscription: Only a fraction of an inscription seen by Petrie 'L[ATICEN'.
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1846
Condition: Though complete in Petrie's time, only half now.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-53, 679
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XXVII, no. 68
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 120, Fig 15, no. 5. 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
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