Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1915) (14802372483)


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Identifier: journalofroyalso1915roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
Subjects: Ireland -- Genealogy Ireland -- History Societies, etc Ireland -- Antiquities Societies, etc
Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and slender cross highly carved, as wellas the head of another ; and two slabs with inscriptions and carvingof considerable interest. On the sea shore at Stroove near Movilleis a cross inscribed pillar stone and a holy well. The cross of St Mura at Fahan is usually the first seen byvisitors to Inishowen ; it is 7 feet in height, and shaped like anordinary gravestone with pointed top. It has also the uncommonfeature of arms projecting a short distance from the sides of the^tone ; a small slab with similarly projecting arms lies in the grave-yard at Killegar, near the Scalp in County Wicklow. On eachside of the Fahan monument is an interlaced cross in low reUef ;these are probably the finest designs of their kind in the country.The cross on the east side is the more artistic and effective, thoughless elaborate than that on the west. The latter has a figure ina long robe at either side ; the inscriptions cut on these robes areA feature not found elsewhere ; they do not seem to have been
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Fahan—St. Muras Cross—East Side (From Photograph by H. S. Crawford)

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