Island Life | Part III | Devenish Island | Additional Photographs

Originally posted online on 7 October 2014 at rmchapple.blogspot.com

(http://rmchapple.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/island-life-part-iii-devenish-
island_7.html)

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To accompany the less-than-stellar photos taken on an iPhone at Devenish, I'm

including a complimentary collection of equally impressive scanned slides from a visit
with the Historic Monuments Council in 2000.

Overview of An Teampull Mr

Overview of St Molaise's House and the Round Tower

Hypothetical reconstructions of 'St Molaise's House' and earlier wooden church.
Taken from DOE information board.

Detail of one of the Romanesque decorated antae on St Molaise's House

Detail of one of the Romanesque decorated antae on St Molaise's House

Detail of one of the Romanesque decorated antae on St Molaise's House

Detail of one of the Romanesque decorated antae on St Molaise's House

Detail of one of the Romanesque decorated antae on St Molaise's House

View of St Molaise's House and An Teampull Mr,from the doorway of the Round
Tower

View of Romanesque mask on the Round Tower

View of Romanesque mask on the Round Tower

 View of Romanesque mask on the Round Tower

Reconstructed floors and access ladders within the Round Tower

 15th century High Cross

Side view of 15th century High Cross

 Detail of face on high Cross

High Cross being inspected by Chris Lynn

 Ribbed vaulting at the Crossing of St Mary's Priory

Overview of a group of stones in the Visitor Centre

Cross-slab and bullaun (grinding) stone in the Visitor Centre

 Cross-slab in the Visitor Centre

Grotesque head, possibly from An Teampull Mr, now in Visitor Centre

 Tablet (15th century) from the original entrance to St Mary's Priory, now in Visitor
Centre

Roughly carved board for a game similar to Nine Men's Morris, now in Visitor
Centre
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