Wall Paintings, Abbeyknockmoy, Co. Galway, Ireland

Wall Paintings, Abbeyknockmoy, Co. Galway, Ireland

Wall Painting

Fokelore

Lantern slide of wall paintings found at Abbeyknockmoy, Co. Galway. Originally labeled '16 G' with label ' Painting - Knockmoy. From Du Noyer.' On the upper part of the slide is a scene from the tale of the of Three living and Three Dead Kings. The story is straightforward _ three kings out hunting, each carrying a hawk, encounter three grisly skeletons who admonish them for their vain clothing and fine airs and tell them to consider their own mortality. The inscription under the feet of the Dead Kings reads 'We have been as you are, you shall be as we are. O Under this, there is a scene taken from the life of St. Sebastian where he is killed during the Roman emperor Diocletian's persecution of Christians. He is bound to a tree and has been shot from either side by a number of arrows discharged by the flanking archers.

Sophie Hogan

RSAI, Lantern Slide, Box 22_5

The Discovery Programme

The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (RSAI)

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Box 22_005

12/08/2014

Scanned to 2400 dpi , 16 bit greyscale image with automatic exposure

RSAI Lantern slide collection

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Lantern slides

Country: Ireland

Town/townland: Knockmoy

Logainm code: http://www.logainm.ie/6332.aspx

County: Galway

Logainm code: http://www.logainm.ie/100015.aspx

Irish National Grid East: 25509

Irish National Grid North: 75310

Latitude: 54.43649

Longitude: -8.74804

The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (RSAI)