I have just been reading Bob Quinn’s book
The Atlantean Irish
and as an escape from weddings Sile and I went
for a spin around Carrick on Suir a couple of evenings ago
and stopped to look at the high crosses in Ahenny.

I took a photograph of this piece of one of the crosses.
I think that with this bit of strap carving Bob Quinns point is well made.
Arabesque is I think the appropiate term.
(And a good moment to remember how much we owe the nation of Islam)

Post Scriptum
Thank you Isabel for seeing the slip of the thumb.
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