Seir Kieran Passion Symbols

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Seir Kieran (Saighir Chiaráin) monastery (OF039-003001-) was founded by St. Kieran in the fifth century. The monastery stands on the edge of a stream in the townland of Churchland, barony of Ballybritt, County Offaly, in the parish of Saighir Chiaráin, Diocese of Ossory. 19th-century headstone erected in Seir Kieran graveyard, Co. Offaly, in memory of John Mc Daniels who died in 1804. The top of the stone is decorated with the Instruments of Christ’s Passion also known as the Arma Christi (Weapons of Christ). The inscription is flanked by foliage with bird standing on top holding rosary beads in their beaks, flanking a central Christogram with cross rising from the crossbar flanked on either side by a soul effigy with heart symbol beneath. The passion symbols consist of the Crucifixion with Christogram above, soul effigies with crosses rising from their heads, Roman soldier Longinus, the Cock on the Pot, hammer, nails, ladder, scourge, cup & 30 pieces of silver beneath. The headstone has been repaired.