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Ardboe High Cross ((アイルランド語:Seanchrois Ard Bó)) is a high cross and national monument located in Ardboe, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It was the first high cross built in Ulster. The cross stands at the entrance to a cemetery and a monastery and a church from the seventeenth century which was founded in 590 by Saint Colman. The monastery was destroyed by fire in the twelfth century. It is believed to have been erected in either the ninth or the tenth century. The name "Ard Boe" means "hill of the cow" it comes from a legend that the monastery of Ardboe was built from the milk of a magic cow out of Lough Neagh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=The Chrono Centre - Queens University Belfast )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Triskelle )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Discover Northern Ireland )〕 and forms the only remaining part of an early monastery on the site. At around , Ardboe High Cross is Northern Ireland's tallest cross.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Megalithic Ireland )〕 Although the head of the cross is damaged, it seems to be the only such cross in Northern Ireland to remain largely complete and original.〔 == History of the cross == Around 590 AD, St Colman founded an abbey or monastery at Ardboe, on an elevated site overlooking Lough Neagh. == Description and identification == This cross is about high and wide. It depicts twenty two panels of Old and New Testament scenes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ardboe High Cross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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