Qualla: Ahenny https://qualla.com/ahenny en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ahenny https://qualla.com/ahenny Ahenny: Introduction https://qualla.com/ahenny/ If you want to understand how Irish high crosses began, you stand in front of the Ahenny crosses and look closely. The Celtic knotwork that swirls across their surfaces, the rounded bosses that stud them like rivets -- these are not abstractions invented in stone. They are stone copies of crosses made of wood and bound with metal, the kind of crosses that have rotted away everywhere else in Ireland. The Ahenny crosses are the memory of that lost generation. Carved sometime in the 8th or 9th century, they may be the oldest of the great Irish high crosses, and they stand in a graveyard in a village so small you could miss it from the road.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/d/ahenny-wp/gc6d-ahenny-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ahenny: Kilclispeen on the Border https://qualla.com/ahenny/ Ahenny sits close to the border between counties Tipperary and Kilkenny, on the slopes of Carrigadoon Hill above the valley of the River Lingaun. The village was once part of the ancient Kingdom of Ossory, and close to it lay an early Christian foundation called Kilclispeen, the ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/d/ahenny-wp/gc6d-ahenny-kilclispeen-on-the-border.mp3 0:06 2 full Ahenny: Carved Like Wood https://qualla.com/ahenny/ Look at the crosses and you see craftsmen translating one material into another. The intricate Celtic knotwork interlace and the prominent bosses that punctuate the panels both imitate something earlier: the appearance of carved wooden crosses bound with metal fittings, a form th...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/d/ahenny-wp/gc6d-ahenny-carved-like-wood.mp3 0:06 3 full Ahenny: The Ossory Group https://qualla.com/ahenny/ Eight kilometres south of Ahenny is Tibberaghny, with its own early high cross. Eight kilometres north stands the Killamery High Cross, completing the closest geographic cluster. Sixteen miles northeast lies the Kilree High Cross, often grouped with this set despite the distance....

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/d/ahenny-wp/gc6d-ahenny-the-ossory-group.mp3 0:06 4 full Ahenny: The Tombs and the Boundary https://qualla.com/ahenny/ The country around Ahenny is older still. Two kilometres east on Killmacoliver Hill sits the Baunfree megalithic tomb. Two kilometres north on a hilltop is the Knockroe passage tomb, locally known as the Coshel, which is one of the most decorated tombs outside the Boyne Valley gr...

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