Old Cross, Sligo
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Where: Sligo, Ireland
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From the delights of Woodstown in Waterford and wasp waisted women to ancient artifacts and abodes in Sligo! This fine celtic cross appears to have been beautifully decorated, and is positioned with a tower in the background. Some great vertical lines in the shot. Is it still standing and in that location?
Even though this image may have been mirrored in the scanning/digitising process, BeachcomberAustralia and Rory_Sherlock quickly and concurrently identified this as
Drumcliffe, County Sligo. Where there are a number of high crosses. And, apparently Sligo's only round tower. Poet William Butler Yeats is buried only a few paces away.....
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1900-1939
NLI Ref: EAS_3409
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Source: Flickr Commons
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Even though this image may have been mirrored in the scanning/digitising process, BeachcomberAustralia and Rory_Sherlock quickly and concurrently identified this as
Drumcliffe, County Sligo. Where there are a number of high crosses. And, apparently Sligo's only round tower. Poet William Butler Yeats is buried only a few paces away.....
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1900-1939
NLI Ref: EAS_3409
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
Views: 21247
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Drumcliffe? goo.gl/maps/h58SKYgmjYn FISA - www.flickr.com/photos/annaprescott/2274099124/ Image is reversed. Is that a monkey half way up?
Rory_Sherlock
That's Drumcliffe, but I think the image needs to be reversed - see comparable image here: historicgraves.com/graveyard/st-columba-s-church-ireland-...
mcginley2012
Definitely Drumcliffe, as children we were told that when the wisest man in Ireland passed under the tower it would fall on him!
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Useful description and history of the two crosses and the round tower - www.megalithicireland.com/HighCross Drumcliffe.html www.megalithicireland.com/DrumcliffeRoundTower.html Ed. Sorry for bad links - I'm having no luck fixing them ... Ed. 2 - Thanks to Sharon whose links are good below VV
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] The links seem to be missing ".html" at the end of the urls. Round Tower High Cross
B-59
Taken in 2009: www.flickr.com/photos/audtrikat/3504565422/
sharon.corbet
25" OSI
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And this is the tower in 2015 . . . www.flickr.com/photos/catb/18005316768/in/photolist-trdnk...
Melodiuz
nice
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks very much all - Especially https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia andhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/139877639@N08 for the near concurrent location identification notes :) While I have not flipped the image, I have made a note of the probable mirroring - as well as a few other notes from today's investigations. (Including my own discovery, not previously known to me, that Yeats is buried in this same graveyard).
Dr. Ilia
great image
Niall McAuley
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