TY  - JOUR
  - Tomás Ó Carragáin
  - 2005
  - November
  - Journal of The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
  - The architectural setting of the cult of relics in early medieval Ireland
  - Published
  - ()
  - 133
  - 130
  - 176
  - Most early ecclesiastical sites in Ireland were characterised by a separationbetween the main congregational church and the principal reliquary focus.It is argued that this reflects the fact that they were often initially founded asecclesiastical settlements, and that cemeteries were usually a secondarydevelopment. Translation only occurred at a minority of sites, but even thenthe separation between liturgical space and reliquary space was usuallymaintained by placing corporeal relics in outdoor stone shrines or in metalreliquaries housed in diminutive shrine chapels built over the originalgravesite. In this regard, Irish clerics of the eighth and ninth centuries seemto have imitated Early Christian memoriae, perhaps especially the aediculein Jerusalem, rather than contemporary relic-cults in Francia or England. Itis suggested that they had indigenous reasons for doing this including theparticularly close link in Ireland between the development of the cult ofrelics and the concept of the Christian cemetery.
DA  - 2005/11
ER  - 

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   = {Tomás Ó Carragáin },
   = {2005},
   = {November},
   = {Journal of The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland},
   = {The architectural setting of the cult of relics in early medieval Ireland},
   = {Published},
   = {()},
   = {133},
  pages = {130--176},
   = {{Most early ecclesiastical sites in Ireland were characterised by a separationbetween the main congregational church and the principal reliquary focus.It is argued that this reflects the fact that they were often initially founded asecclesiastical settlements, and that cemeteries were usually a secondarydevelopment. Translation only occurred at a minority of sites, but even thenthe separation between liturgical space and reliquary space was usuallymaintained by placing corporeal relics in outdoor stone shrines or in metalreliquaries housed in diminutive shrine chapels built over the originalgravesite. In this regard, Irish clerics of the eighth and ninth centuries seemto have imitated Early Christian memoriae, perhaps especially the aediculein Jerusalem, rather than contemporary relic-cults in Francia or England. Itis suggested that they had indigenous reasons for doing this including theparticularly close link in Ireland between the development of the cult ofrelics and the concept of the Christian cemetery.}},
  source = {IRIS}
}