Here's a fascinating collection of Celtic Crosses in a variety of styles found here in the Irish countryside, mostly in Medieval abbey ruins and graveyards. The Celtic Cross — a cross combined with a circle around the intersection — became popular in Ireland sometime before the 8th Century. It’s believed they were introduced in Ireland by either Saint Patrick or Saint Declan during missions to convert Irish Pagans to Christianity. If you follow the various techniques used to sway the opinions of

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Ken’s Irish Celtic Patterns. Before Christianity, the Celtic art form known as La Tène was carved into rock, etched in bronze and possibly tattooed by the Iron Age inhabitants of Ireland. Similar to British La Tène (pre-Roman Celtic art), but substantially different. The art of the Irish was less formalised and more vegetal (like growing plants). But contrary to what is usually understood about the art of the Irish and the British, I believe there is an underlying common structure between the ar