Now there's a word you don't see every day - coimetromania: an abnormal attraction and desire to visit cemeteries, graveyards, and anything to do with the dead. I think a lot of photographers are drawn to graveyards, presumably on account of the fact they usually have interesting artefacts. In this case, it was the old Agherton graveyard in Portstewart, with this superb High Cross:
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I don't think I'm a coimetromaniac (is that the right word?), but older cemeteries have some interesting sculpture and history. That cross you've captured so well, for example. Which looks more pagan than Christian.
ReplyDeleteI think the Celtic crosses have pagan underpinnings, Marcus. Some go back as far as the 9th or 10th Century, from what I read. This graveyard would date back to the middle of the 19th Century, but obviously there could have been something else here before then. Portstewart was just a small fishing village in those days.
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