celticcross

After 1893 !

It's overlooking Kilronan Harbour. Unfortunately streetview hasn't made to Inishmore yet... Carved by Patrick Pearse's father, no less, in memory of Rev. Michael O'Donoghue.

Erected by the islanders and a few friends in memory of the Rev. Michael O'Donoghue for 11 Years the beloved priest and benefactor of Aran 1893 R.I.P. [flickr won't let me put all caps - boo hoo]

beachcomber australia My link claimed 11 years...

www.flickr.com/photos/11061732@N07/15307546020/in/set-721... is a reverse view so it is just beside the harbour. here it is.

We've been here before, 9 years ago and back on my first day commenting - 3 years ago! (a different high cross in kells?)

Mr French / Lawrence has been tweaking away a great deal of vegetation, still seen in L_ROY_05280 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000322253 A couple of centimetres higher in 2013 via Jones-McAuley

"This is the earliest of the high crosses in Kells, it was erected in the 9th century. An inscription in latin, at the top of the base, on the east face reads; PATRICII ET COLUMBAE CRUX -The Cross of Patrick and Columbia. Also known as the south cross it stands about 3.30 metres high." More details about the carvings here - www.megalithicireland.com/High Cross Kells.htm "The west side of the base depicts a chariot procession." Ed. Flickr does not like that link. Try google "cross kells history"

Architecture of Dublin Only nine years!!

Google Earth Link earth.app.goo.gl/ULbZGK #googleearth One of the 4 extant in Kells

SpOoKy! - the house on the left has vanished and the white house has acquired extra windows. Streetview - www.google.com.au/maps/@52.1667501,-10.4053686,3a,75y,214...

St Vincent's Catholic Church is c. 1865, and "Freestanding cut-stone Celtic Cross style grave marker, c. 1900, to north-west of site." via - www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&... So after 1900?

The triple lancet chancel windows now have recent stained glass - via Places Around Ireland www.flickr.com/photos/placesaroundireland/36542127566/ Flickr is sometimes amazing!

Interesting history of Halloween - it seems we can blame the Celts! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween#History

This is a scene I'm familiar with - I used to be based in the adjacent parish of Dingle. A distant cousin of mine was curate in Ballyferriter in the 1880s and was very involved in Land League activities in the area. I've asked a friend in Ballyferriter to have a look at the Celtic Cross for me to see if we can narrow down the date. (Not sure if/when he'll get back to me!) The church is dedicated to St Vincent de Paul because of the work of priests from the Vincentian Order who began a Mission in West Kerry in 1840s to counteract the activity of the Anglican Rev. Geyer who was even sucessful in converting Fr Denis Layne Brasbie (Curate in Ballyferriter) to Anglicanism. The work of the Vincentians was largely sucessful in reversing what was then known as 'souperism'. The house (now vanished) built on to the church was the presbytery where the clergy and their staff lived, In 1901 that was Fr John O'Leary PP, his curate Fr Patrick O'Regan, their cook/domestic Mary Ashe and general domestic Patrick Connor. To the best of my knowledge, the presbytery survived into the 1980s or 1990s and was known as having quite poor living conditions. It was replaced by a free-standing presbytery the driveway of which can be seen by rotating the Streetview.