Identifier: journalofroyalso506roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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
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Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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helChi-Kho monogram does not occur on the early inscribed stonesof Ireland, but in place of it the cross with equal arms expandedat the ends, enclosed in a circle, which is derived from themonogram; it naturally follows that Irish Christianity is laterthan that of Cornwall, Wales, and the south-west of Scotland. 3 This is rather like the Arms of Milles, of Co. Dublin, given in a funeral entryof 1625— ermine, a pale masculy sable. E 66 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. In order to qualify this statement it is satisfactory to find aninstance of the occurrence of the monogram, though not in theearliest form, in Ireland. In the figure are shown the threechief varieties of the monogram (which gradually approximates tothe cross) and after them the actual form existing at Knockane. Henry S. Crawford. Two Carvings at Athenry Abbey—The figure shows two designsfrom the Dominican Friary. The first is cut with other patternson a slab which originally formed part of a, tomb or altar. It
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Rubbings of two Carvings at Athenry Abbey. Scale 1/6. represents a traceried window of late form, and is 18; inches inheight from the sill to the point of the opening. ProfessorMacalister, in his paper on the church,1 has alluded to it as-resembling the inserted east window of the building; the traceryis of the same type, but the carving has four mullions, the-actual window only three. It is unusual to see the representa-tion of a window used for decoration. The second design is on the broken shaft of a memorial cross-which is now kept in the sacristy. The stone is 21 inches in length 1 Journal, vol, xliii, (1913), p 220. MISCELLANEA. 07 and the inscription is in English; the letters are of ordinary formexcept the Y. which is unusual. The word baccagh (lame) isintroduced into the name as a mark of identity: the surname isprobably a peculiar spelling of the well known name COYLE. Henry S. Crawford. An Eighteenth Century Tombstone in Claregalway Abbey.— The monuments in Claregalway ar

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