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Cross of Moone
At Moone in Co.Kildare, is the site of the early Columban foundation
- "Moin Cholum Cille". Here you can see the tall slender
Celtic Cross at Monasterboice which are standing where the monks
placed them, the cross of Moone was lost for centuries, buried and
in pieces. The capstone of the cross is still missing. The story
of the finding of the cross is interesting. In the middle of the
nineteenth century, just after the Great Famine, a local mason was
taking slabs of stone from the ruins if the Abbey for building purposes
when he unearthed the base and head of the cross. He and others
in the locality recognised its importance and some later the base
and head were set up near the place it was found at the south east
of the ruined Abbey Church.
Some years later, when some other workmen were digging a grave
in the grounds of the ruin, the shaft of the cross was uncovered.
Later still, in the 1893, the pieces were skillfully put together
by three brothers of the O'Shaughnessy family, the sons of the Micheal
O'Shaughnessy who first found parts of the cross forty years before
and who had lived to see the completed cross erected.
The bill for the work is still extant - its total £8.07s.
of which £5 was contributed by the Kildare Archeological Society
and the balance by Mr.F.M. Carrol of Moone Abbey House. The cross
itself is probabaly early 9th Century. It appears to be in the tradition
of the "midland" group of crosses, the prototypes of the
greater crosses carved and erected in the Northern Province in the
later part of the ninth and early tenth centuries. It has the ringed
head which we all associate with the Celtic crosses, in the Crucifixion
scene on the base, the figure is draped but, unusually, the spear
is shown piercing Our Lord's right side. The cross, which is made
of granite probably from Castledermot - also has intricate Celtic
designs, both curvilinear and geometric, as well as human figures,
though these latter are rough hewn and stylised. However, scholars
say that it is the first cross on which the scenes from the Old
Testament occur in a regular programme, an important development
in the history of the Irish High Crosses.
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Cross of Moone replica cross in gold or silver
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