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Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00294
Dimensions: H 0.40, W 0.335, T 0.02
Outline expansional cross with median line. The circular central and semicircular terminal expansions are blank. Maclaister recorded the slab in two pieces (129 and 130) not realising they were from the same slab. They were put back together by the OPW in 1954-58.
Inscription: Petrie recorded 'OR DO D[O]RA[ID]' part of the 'D[O]RA is still visible.
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822. Refound post 1949 (?).
Condition: In three pieces. Complete when petrie saw it.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-247, 919
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XLVII, no. 118. 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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