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BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE.
jeweller’s art as were clearly imported from the Continent,
though found in Ireland. For example, the chalice of Ardagh is
completely Irish, while the phial found at Church-walls in the
county of Down is foreign.* Such crosiers as that of Clonmacnois
are essentially Irish, both in form and design, while those of
Glendalough and of Cashel are Limoges work.
FIG. IOO.—CORMAC’S CIIAI’EL (EXTERIOR).
When we consider the remains of sculpture in Ireland, we find
even less evidence of any remarkable skill in this art among the
Irish before the ninth century, than in that of metal-work. The
Annalists do not refer to the High Crosses till the beginning of
the tenth century, and these are the first monuments on which
we find sculpture in relief, with undercutting. It would seem that
See Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol. ii. p. 192.
jeweller’s art as were clearly imported from the Continent,
though found in Ireland. For example, the chalice of Ardagh is
completely Irish, while the phial found at Church-walls in the
county of Down is foreign.* Such crosiers as that of Clonmacnois
are essentially Irish, both in form and design, while those of
Glendalough and of Cashel are Limoges work.
FIG. IOO.—CORMAC’S CIIAI’EL (EXTERIOR).
When we consider the remains of sculpture in Ireland, we find
even less evidence of any remarkable skill in this art among the
Irish before the ninth century, than in that of metal-work. The
Annalists do not refer to the High Crosses till the beginning of
the tenth century, and these are the first monuments on which
we find sculpture in relief, with undercutting. It would seem that
See Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol. ii. p. 192.