Cantwell Fada
The Cantwell Fada (also known as the Long Man) is an effigy of a knight on display in the ruins of a 14th-century church in Kilfane near Thomastown in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
The effigy is carved from a single slab of limestone. The knight wears a suit of chain mail. His legs are crossed, the right leg over the left, believed to show that he was a participant in the crusades.[1] In the left hand is carried a large shield bearing the arms of the Cantwell family.[2]
It is believed to represent Thomas de Cantwell (d. 1319), a Cambro-Norman adventurer who became Lord of Kilfane.[3] The stone effigy is thought to originally have been a sarcophagus slab which has since been set upright against an inner wall of the church.[4][5] The statue represents a example of the high standard achieved by Irish sculptural workshops in the Pale prior to a cultural and economic decline marked by the Bruce invasion and the arrival of Black Death.[6]
Hubert Butler recalled the local tale that children at the nearby Protestant school were sometimes punished by having to kiss the statue.[7]
Nearby is The Longman of Kilfane, a public house and restaurant named for the Cantwell Fada.
References
- ↑ http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=7884803&jid=ANT&volumeId=90&issueId=-1&aid=7884801
- ↑ http://homepage.eircom.net/~osrai/cantwellfada.htm
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