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The Carndonagh stones are a set of five sculpted stones in the town of Carndonagh, County Donegal. All five stones are on the grounds of Donagh Church. The group consists of one free-standing high cross with two smaller, attendant pillars; a free-standing pillar known as the "Marigold Stone"; and a decorated door lintel. The pieces apart from the lintel are thought, on the basis of their stylistic similarity, to be roughly contemporaneous. These stones are generally now dated between the 9th and 10th century, though a minority date them to the 7th century on the basis of stylistic comparisons with the Book of Durrow.: 167–169 
French scholar Françoise Henry (who dated the stone to the 7th century) made the Carndonagh high cross famous by citing it prominently in her theory of the origin of Insular high crosses.: 169  She believed that high crosses gradually emerged from carved slabs (such as the St Mura Cross at Fahan) and that the Carndonagh high cross "marks the final victory in the attempt to free the cross from the slab".: 128  This theory gained few supporters, with later archaeological evidence substantially refuting it.: 169  Scottish archaeologist Robert B. K. Stevenson sharply criticised her interpretation of the Carndonagh stones.




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Further reading


Harbison, P. "A group of Early Christian carved stone monuments in County Donegal" in Higgit, J. (ed.) Early medieval sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Oxford (1986), pp. 49-71
Henry, F. La Sculpture Irlandaise pendant les Douze Premiers Siècles de l'ère Chrétienne. Paris (1932), pp. 201ff
Roth, U. "Studien zur Ornamentik frühchristlichen Handschriften des insularen Bereich: von den Anfängen bis zum Book of Durrow" Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission. Vol. 60. Berlin (1979), pp. 5-226.
Walsh, N. "The Early Medieval sculpture at Carndonagh, Co. Donegal: iconography, context, date". MLitt thesis, NUI, Galway (2003)




External links


Media related to Marigold Stone, Carndonagh at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to Carndonagh High Cross at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to Donagh Church, Carndonagh at Wikimedia Commons

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