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Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00427
Dimensions: H 0.49, W 0.57, T 0.07
Outline expansional cross with median line and plain semicircular terminal expansion. The slab is badly fractured and on the point of disintegration.
Inscription: 'MARTHINE' runs vertically down (?) the slab.
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822.
Condition: Fragment with stem and terminal of cross.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XV, no. 40
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 132, Fig 23, no. 14 (POSSIBLE ????). 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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