Killamery High Cross

The Killamery High Cross is part the group of High Crosses of Western Ossory. It was carved in the 8th. century at the monastic site founded by St. Gobain Fionn two centuries earlier and is richly ornamented with gemetric Interlaces.

The Killamery Brooch, is a beautifull example of silver and glass workmanship from the ninth century and was discovered in Killlamery in 1858. It is a prototype for broches that became popular in the ninth century. The ring encloses an inscribed rectangle with a diamond shaped plate of gold filigree. Silver oval studs mark the centres and the sides of the head and the upper and lower corners are marked by spiral designs. An extremely long pin fastener runs vertically along the ring. Two trapezoidal silver plates bridged by two oval shaped silver studs and interlace form the plate of the brooch. Alternating bossed studs of spiral and animal designs rim the plate. It can now be seen in the national Museum in Dublin.

The cemetery is also the burial site of members of the 1798 Rising who died at the nearby Carraigmoclear the only site of the rising in Munster

(Item compliments of Windgap GAA Club website windgap.kilkenny@gaa.ie