symbolism

Cross of Clogher - Irish - The Metropolitan Museum of Art share.google/Nc9BBF3a1c7AbqWDI

Safe in the County Museum Monaghan ?

From "Irishmusic1981" on Instagram ...
"Cross of Clogher (12th- 14th centuries)
The Cross was uncovered in a thatched roof of a church at Slavin, County Fermanagh. It was later donated to Saint Macartan's Seminary, Monaghan.
The Cross of Clogher is one of the most famous pieces of Medieval Irish Art.
The oak cross is fully encased in bronze. Each bronze
panel is riveted on the wood and richly decorated with
Christian iconography. The topmost panel depicts a
crucifixion scene in high relief with angels on either side.
The reverse is decorated in a repeated geometric design.
Video taken by me at the County Museum in Monaghan."
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Wondering if this is the church where the cross was found in the thatch?
Via Monkiiiey Henry Clark

Account of the discovery in the Frontier Sentinel - Saturday 22 May 1943:

The Clogher Cross was found by the late Rev. E. J. Quigley, P.P., Newbliss, in 1898, when he was a curate in Devenish, Garrison. A dying man named Campbell handed him the cross. which had hung for 50 years or more in the old thatched chapel at Slavin on the lough side. It is a medieval treasure and is now in the Museum attached to the Seminary in Monaghan. It might be called the Devenish Cross.

On the occasion of a shrine being provided for the cross, the Frontier Sentinel of Saturday 1 January 1949 gave Fr. Quigley's account of comforting the dying man Campbell and how he got hold of the cross:

" I called back a few times and comforted him (Mr. Campbell). He got somewhat better . , and was grateful. ' They tell me,' he said, ' you are interested in old noggins, horn spoons and pewter plates. I have none of these things, but step up on that chair, and in the bed tester (a canopy) over the bed you'll find a weighty cross.'

"I did as he told and, covered with dust and grime. there was the now famous Cross. 'Tie it on your bciycle and bring It home with you.'

"'This old Cross,' he said, 'was hanging long ago in the old thatched roof Church at Slavin, on the shores of Lough Erne. It is very old, and the people loved it. Some way or other it got into our family to keep it safe. It is here for fifty years. There it is, take it. I know you will look after it.'

"I took it, cleaned it as best I could . . . "

Wikipedia has a very similar photo in Westminster Abbey dated "c. 1875 - c. 1885". There's no label on the sword and shield ...
Spot the Differences!

The Stone of Scone has had more than its share of ups and downs - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone
"Since March 2024, it has been on permanent public display in Perth"

Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Leonard Bentley who says the Magic Lantern slide is late 1880s -

We had its Irish equivalent, an Lia Fáil, here before, also by Mason below.

I see the Scottish rock is also called An Lia Fàil in Scots Gaelic!

beachcomber australia Because that comment came from you, for one milli-zillisecond I thought, what's it doing in Western Australia?! :D

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Ha ha! I am moithered that the Stone of Scone doesn't rhyme !

By tradition, the British monarch is crowned using St. Edward’s Crown, the oldest and heaviest crown in Britain that is still being used today. Like most of the crown jewels, the crown dates to the restoration period. It was made in 1661, based on the design of a medieval crown that bore the same name. That original crown was sold during the interregnum, following the execution of King Charles I, and the new one was made following the restoration of King Charles II. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, placed St. Edward’s Crown on Elizabeth’s head during one of the most memorable moments of the coronation ceremony. The crowd shouted “God Save the Queen!” three times as the crown touched the monarch’s head. This was the one and only time that the Queen wore this particular crown. It is only used for coronations, and it is kept at all other times in the Tower of London. At the end of the coronation ceremony, the heavy St. Edward’s Crown is swapped out for the lighter Imperial State Crown. The Queen wore the latter as she departed from the Abbey, and for the official photographs and balcony appearances that followed. The Imperial State Crown was made in 1838 for the coronation of Queen Victoria, based on the design of earlier crowns. While St. Edward’s Crown is the coronation crown, the Imperial State Crown is the “working” crown—the one, for example, worn by the Queen at almost every State Opening of Parliament during her reign. (There were two exceptions to this rule: two monarchs, Victoria and Edward VII, were actually crowned with the Imperial State Crown during their coronation ceremonies. Source: www.thecourtjeweller.com/2022/09/the-queen-a-life-in-jewe...