File 43 - Stone sculpture in Pre-Norman Ireland

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IE CA CP/1/1/4/43

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Stone sculpture in Pre-Norman Ireland

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  • 1969 (Creation)

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92 items; 24 cm x 19 cm; 21 cm x 15 cm; 15 cm x 9.5 cm; Black and white print

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Photographic prints compiled for an article by Domhnall Ó Murchadha titled ‘Stone sculpture in Pre-Norman Ireland’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1969). The file includes the following images:

• Cross of the Scriptures, Clonmacnois, County Offaly.
• Cathedral, churches and South Cross at Clonmacnois, County Offaly.
• ‘The Nun’s Church’, Clonmacnois, County Offaly.
• Cross of Muiredach, Monasterboice, County Louth.
• Cross of Dysert O’Dea, County Clare.
• Cross on the Rock of Cashel, County Tipperary.
• Ornamental doorway to Saint Brendan’s Cathedral, Clonfert, County Galway.
• Kilfenora Cathedral, County Clare.
• Market Cross, Kells, County Meath.
• Durrow High Cross, County Offaly.
• The South Cross, Castledermot, County Kildare.
• Drumcliffe High Cross, County Sligo.
• North Cross, Ahenny, County Tipperary.
• High Cross, Moone, County Kildare.
• Cross of St. Patrick and St. Columba, Kells, County Meath.
• Carndonagh High Cross and Guard Stone, County Donegal.
• Ullard High Cross, County Kilkenny.
• Knowth Passage Tomb, County Meath.
• Newgrange Passage Tomb, County Meath.
Most of the prints are credited to the National Monuments’ Branch, 10 Hume Street, Dublin. The file also includes four older prints of Irish High Crosses by T.F. Geoghegan, photographer, Dublin, and by Fr. Francis Browne SJ.

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      See Domhnall Ó Murchadha, ‘Stone sculpture in Pre-Norman Ireland’, 'The Capuchin Annual' (1969). https://designrr.page/?id=315635&token=1009032638&type=FP&h=2260

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