After traveling around the country side or the Burren area we then decided to stop in Kilfenora to walk around and grab some food. What was cool about Kilfernora was that it had a well preserved amount of Celtic Crosses. Some were extremely tall one which was I think 24 feet tall was located in a field not far from the church where most were preserved.
I think this was the behind view that entered into the cemetery.
This was the cemetery as you can clearly see.
The Celtic Crosses were pretty old and because they were mad of lime stone some of the much older ones were moved under a glass sort of display area to protect them from weathering. Most depicted some sort of religions story from what I had learned and had some amazing imagery as you can see in the stone above.
This is the large Celtic Cross in the field, they warned us not to go in if there was a bull but luckily there was not and the group could get a closer look.
After we looked through this village we stopped in a nice pub to grab a bite to eat and then proceeded to go through the country side to an area that contained a bunch of golf courses. We did not stop there to take picture and immediately proceeded to a a Shrine/Tomb area. The Tomb was of some man with the last name of O'Brien and the Shrine I am not totally sure some Female Saint but not sure.
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Haha wait - do bulls commonly congregate around Celtic crosses?
ReplyDeletehaha not but it was in the middle of a field with cows and sometimes there is a bull in the area and you are not suppose to go in or they will kill you.
ReplyDeleteHoly cow!...s
ReplyDeleteHa - sorry.