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Variations of this cross design are founf throughout Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland.
this design is a variation of one of the crosses found in the ruins of the old nunnery at Iona.

St. Columba founded the monastery on Iona in 563, providing the

The Muthill Cross was founding the yard of ancient and beautiful ruins of the old church in the small village of Muthill, Scotland.  The interlacing which fills the panels of the cross is endless, and thus cannot be untied.  It represents everlasting life

In a remote spot by the River Shannon the monastery Clonmacnois, was founded in 545 AD by St. Ciaran, on a fertile meadow surrounded by a bob. The name means “the meadow of the son of Nos”. It could be reached only by river along a ridge known as the Pilg

Although the original of this cross is located among the ruins of the Monasterboice monastery, we have chosen to name it after the neighboring Mellifont Abbey.  Mellifont was the first Cistercian monastery to be established in Ireland.  It was completed i

In an old graveyard of Moen Cholum Cille, site of and early Columban monastery, is perhaps the most striking of all Irish High Crosses. The cross at Moone is 17 feet high thus making it the second tallest High Cross in the country. The animals depicted on

The perfect wedding gift! Once the chief town of the Earls of Desmond, Kilmallock still retains much of its medieval past.  It is named after the monastery built here in the 7th century by St. Mocheallog.  A large section of its walls, including the massi

Tobermory is an ancient medieval seaport at the top of the Isle of Mull. Across the channel is Lochaline, the site of a 14th-15th century stone carving school that was associated with the nearby Holy Isle of Iona.
This cross design is of our own inventio

The god Midir of Bri Leith, (mound west of Ardagh in Co. Longford) claims that Etain in her former existence was his wife, but that she has been separated from him by the magic of a jealous rival. When Etain in her later existence becomes the wife of Eoch

Early in the 9th century, Vikings settled the island between the rivers Shannon and Abbey. Over the course of hundreds of years, a city of charm and elegance arose and this settlement eventually became today's historic city of Limerick. Carved in this cro

This cross design was taken from the carved reverse side of the cross-slab from Ulbster.  The design is made up of triangular knotwork and is endless.  The eternal theme – the alpha and Omega – the beginning and end in the eternal circle is the very essen

Lisburn, on the banks of the River Lagan, was a prosperous and important linen center in the 19th century.  Half the linen output of the province of Ulster came from this area at this time.  Linen weaving was brought to Lisburn by Huguenots, who fled Fran