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"Fragment of a Stone Head"

Date

12th Century

Place

[Kiltierney, Co. Fermanagh]

Dimensions

Width: 0.1515m
Thickness: 0.695m
Height: 0.157m

Caption

The original dressed surface of this stone fragment is rounded and may have been part of a Romanesque capital at the top of a structural support. The stone’s style suggests that is was from a 12th century church. Features of a face can be discerned - an oval, bulbous eye and part of a nose. The stone was picked up at Kiltierney on the site of an early monastery and later medieval grange belonging to the Cistercian Abbey of Assaroe in Donegal.

Credit

Kindly lent by the Historic Environment Division, DfC

Copyright

Historic Environment Division, DfC
Tony Corey

Object number

FCM_1977_074