Beauty of Native Art: Croziers

Categories: Ireland

Above: The Croziers of Innisfallen
Croziers, in great variety, survive to our own time. Their custody was hereditary in particular families and attended by privileges such as grants of land. One of the largest and most interesting still remaining to us belonged to the abbey of Durrow and is believed to be the crozier of Colm [...]

[caption id="attachment_1442" align="aligncenter" width="172" caption="Innisfallen Crozier"][/caption] Above: The Croziers of Innisfallen Croziers, in great variety, survive to our own time. Their custody was hereditary in particular families and attended by privileges such as grants of land. One of the largest and most interesting still remaining to us belonged to the abbey of Durrow and is believed to be the crozier of Colm Cille. This crozier, which must have been a beautiful example of native art, was preserved in the MacGeoghegan family. It is over ... Read More