Large -*HIGH CROSS OF MUIREDACH Bog Art

The integrity of detail, the ancient bog material of Irlend and craftsmanship all make this a great Celtic Icon of The Emerald Isle.

Possibly commissioned by Muiredach, abbot of the monastic settlement of Mon­asterboice, County Louth, in the early 10th Century. The cross, cut from fine grained sandstone, is regarded as the finest of all the High Crosses of which more than one hundred are scattered over Ireland.

Sometimes referred to as Bibles in stone, they were used to instruct the unlettered by the use of their very comprehensive doctrinal illustrations, and to decorate and mark the bounderies of the monasteries.

Discription:
WEST FACE, reading from the bottom.

The Arrest of Christ.

Doubting Thomas with hand in Christ's side.

Christ gives the keys of His Kingdom to St. Peter and the New Law to St. Paul.

Christ Crucified and showing Stephaton, bearer of the bitter sponge and Longinus, the lance bearer, together with other Passion scenes.

Moses between Aaron and Hur.

... tens of thousands of years ago when long periods of time - successive layers of plants and mosses withered and died in waterlogged areas, building up by slow degrees the bogland -- covered one seventh of the surface of Ireland --for centuries has been cut and saved by the people of the bogland districts

We take great pride in introducing you to a selection - handmade from bog, in the specialist workshops. Reproductions of early Irish art, come boxed and accompanied by carefully researched descriptive notes that will exercise an immediate appeal to those who value the traditions and expressions of our early Celtic Culture.

Origin: Ireland, Ballyshannon / Imported Personally and Exclusively for PoTO Books & Herbs Company

Size: 12", 1 lb, 13 ounces, solid bog

Special Interest: Ireland, Celtic, Druid, Christian, Catholic, Antiquity.

Our Price: $^^^119273^^^