seal;
seal-impression
- Museum number
- OA.27
- Description
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Circular bronze seal-matrix of the Clergy of the Diocese of Kilmore, Ulster. On the back is a loop handle on the upper part. Under a crocketed and pinnacled canopy the Virgin and Child seated. To their right a bishop kneeling in adoration. Legend. With wax impression.
- Production date
- 14thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.15 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from 'Catalogue of British Seal-Dies in the British Museum', A.B. Tonnochy, London 1952, cat. no. 945.
B.M. 'Cat. of Seals', no. 17379; E. C. R. Armstrong, Irish Seal-Matrices and Seals, p. 118.
The diocese was formerly Tir-Bruin, the land of the descendants of Bryan, King of Con-naught. In 1454 the bishop, Andrew McBrady, by consent of the Pope removed his see to a more convenient spot, at Kilmore; made the church into a cathedral, installing thirteen secular canons (H. Cotton, Fasti Eccl. Hibern. iii, p. 153).
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- OA.27