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Drumcliff High Cross Wood Print
by John Moyer
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Drumcliff High Cross wood print by John Moyer. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and added depth of a wood print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 3/4" thick maple wood. There are D-clips on the back of the print for mounting it to your wall using mounting hooks and nails (included).
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This is the high cross at Drumcliff, Sligo, Ireland. It is at the site of a monastery founded by Columcille in about the year 525. I made the photo... more
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This is the high cross at Drumcliff, Sligo, Ireland. It is at the site of a monastery founded by Columcille in about the year 525. I made the photo on April 25, 2007.
William Butler Yeats mentioned this cross in the poem "Under Benbulben" and the last lines of the poem are on Yeats grave marker near the cross.
Under bare Ben Bulben's head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid,
An ancestor was rector there
Long years ago; a church stands near,
By the road an ancient Cross.
No marble, no conventional phrase,
On limestone quarried near the spot
By his command these words are cut:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!
A sign near the Drumcliff Church says:
Drumcliffe Monastery
This monastery, which is now divided in two by the main road. was founded by St. Colmcille about 574 on land donated to him by a local king. Later coar...
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