Fore High Cross (WM004-035022-)3D Model
The repaired head of a pre-12th century, pierced ringed high-cross set into a concrete shaft now set into a stone base standing in a graveyard to the east of St. Féichín’s (Feighin’s) church (WM004-035003-) in Fore, Co. Westmeath. The high-cross belonged to the monastery founded in the 7th-century by St. Féichín, in the territory ruled by the Caílle Follamain whose overlords were the Clann Cholmáin. St. Féichín’s name means ‘little raven’, and he was the son of Caolcharna, of the royal Uí Néill of Tara, and his mother was Lasair of the royal Eoghanacht sept of Munster. The cross was described by the late Peter Harbison as; ‘The head of a ringed cross of sandstone stands to the east of St. Fechin’s church (WM004-035003-) at Fore. It has no mouldings or decorations. In its present re-constructed form, it is 1.20m high, 1m across the arms, and the shaft is 35cm wide and 22cm thick’. A fragment of this cross-head lying on the surface of the graveyard was drawn by George Victor Du Noyer in 1864.
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