Fore Church (WM004-035003-) Doorway Lintel3D Model
Monastery founded by St. Féichín (little raven) around the year 630, he died at Fore in the year 665 from the Yellow Plague. This was the principal church of the Caílle Follamain clan (baronies of Fore in Meath & Westmeath) who were the secular patrons the church in the kingdom of Mide (Meath). This clan were one of three main ruling families in the medieval kingdom of Mide who are descended from the Southern Ui Néill. Internal face of pre 11th-century church doorway lintel with recessed surround which has an encircled equal-armed cross in the centre. The large stone lintel has an equal armed cross on the external face and on the internal face. In the late seventeenth-century Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh, Co. Westmeath, recorded the folk tradition that the massive cross-inscribed lintel of Fore, was lifted into place by St Féichín himself and was one of the ‘Wonders of Fore’. The impressively large cross-inscribed lintel spans the thickness of the west gable wall.
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