"Fragment of a Stone Head"
Date
12th Century
Place
[Kiltierney, Co. Fermanagh]
Dimensions
Width: 0.1515m
Thickness: 0.695m
Height: 0.157m
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
Tony Corey
Object number
FCM_1977_074