What is recorded here

Three limestone faces stare from the south tower wall in Kells Upper By., rescued from oblivion when the present church rose. They wear flat caps, a bishop’s mitre, and womanly calm, freezing late 16th or 17th century flesh into pale stone. They are not gods, nor kings, but ordinary people made permanent by chisel and memory.

From Bradley and King (1985, 1, 81) Stone heads Late 16th / 17th century. These are on the S wall of the church tower. O’Connell (1960, 22) says that these were found when the present church was being built. All are on square plaques of limestone. (a) Round face with short hair under a flat cap (Wth c. 0.46m). (b) Bishop with an elaborately embroidered mitre worn over short cropped hair with amice around the neck. (dims c. 0.3m). (C) Woman wearing a flat cap over short cropped hair (Wth c. 0.26m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 July, 2014

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