Drumcliff : High Cross
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Sunday, 17th August 2003
An rather oddly carved white sandstone cross. The motifs are very bodly carved with some very high relief.
There is a nice Adam and Eve, Daniel in the Lions Den and the twelve Apostles as heads.
The sides have move beasties and square holes which Anthony Weir suggest may have held further carvings. The ring is also adorned by beasts, this time ones with a very crocodillian appearance.
If you are passing, this is definitely worth looking at, because the strong carving makes it very readable.
Saturday, 19th June 2010
I have driven past this several times recently and this time I (obviously) stopped to take another look. I've always had a soft spot for this cross. So close to the road. So close to the tearooms. So ignored.
The scale of the carving is quite something to behold on a good sunny day. The carvings leap out of the cross. There has been some work on which high crosses could have been carved by the same hand, but I've not seen any reports about this cross and others that may be related in this way.
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