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ST LUKE’S CHURCH OF IRELAND GRAVEYARD IN DOUGLAS COUNTY CORK

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EXAMPLES OF OBELISKS

BIRD CARVINGS IN THIS GRAVEYARD

Obelisks became popular gravestone motifs in 19th-century Britain and Ireland due to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1801 and the occupation of Egypt. To ancient Egyptians, obelisks were petrified rays of sunlight where the sun god Ra lived. In graveyards they symbolise ancient godliness, greatness.

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