Friday, June 27, 2025

The Lough Kinale Book Shrine

This amazing artifact was found in an Irish lake back in 1986, and was conserved very carefully over the next 39 years. It is now on display at the Irish National Museum. Incidentally a "book shrine" is just a fancy cover for a religious book, what others would call a treasure binding.

It likely dates to the 9th century. How it ended up on the bottom of a smallish lake is anybody's guess.

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G. Verloren said...

It likely dates to the 9th century. How it ended up on the bottom of a smallish lake is anybody's guess.

Lough Kinale is fed by streams. Twelve hundred years is plenty of time for water courses to change, potentially flooding a previously dry but low-lying area.

It might be less that it ended up at the bottom of a lake, and more that a lake ended up on top of it.

June 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM

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