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Gold lunula from Blessington, Ireland, Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, c. 2400BC – 2000BC, Classical group. A gold lunula (pl. gold lunulae) was a distinctive type of late Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and—most often—early Bronze Age necklace, collar, or pectoral shaped like a crescent moon.
Today it is held by the National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology, where it is on permanent display.According to Mary Cahill of the museum, the objects are significant as the only extant "association between the discs and the lunula, because the discs would be considered among the earliest gold ornaments and the lunula as coming a little bit later". [6]
The lunula is made of decorated gold and dated to 2200-2000 BC and is one of the earliest gold ornaments from Wales. [1] Other estimates suggest 2400-2000 BC of the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age. [2] The lunula is the heaviest lunula from the islands of Britain and Ireland, weighing 185g. [3] Llanllyfni lunula.
In Ireland, lunulae were probably replaced as neck ornaments firstly by gold torcs, found from the Irish Middle Bronze Age, and then in the Late Bronze Age by the spectacular "gorgets" of thin ribbed gold, some with round discs at the side, of which 9 examples survive, 7 in the National Museum of Ireland. [9]
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin: 1 gold lunula 2 gold discs [4] Derrinboy Hoard 14th to 13th century BC: Derrinboy County Offaly: 1957 or 1958 National Museum of Ireland, Dublin: 1 gold necklet 2 gold armlets 2 gold rings [5] Dowris Hoard: 9th to 7th century BC
The English portraitist James Gandy was brought to Ireland after his patron James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond became Lord Deputy in 1661, and remained until his death in 1689. By the 1680s the Dutch Golden Age painter Ludowyk Smits was able to base himself in Ireland, mainly painting portraits. Irish painters typically looked outside Ireland for ...
The National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology (Irish: Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann – Seandálaíocht, often known as the "NMI") is a branch of the National Museum of Ireland located on Kildare Street in Dublin, Ireland, that specialises in Irish and other antiquities dating from the Stone Age to the Late Middle Ages
Blessington, historically known as Ballycomeen (Irish: Baile Coimín, meaning 'town of Comyn', from the Irish surname Ó Coimín), [2] is a town on the River Liffey in County Wicklow, Ireland, near the border with County Kildare.