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- The Tandragee Idol is the name given to a carved sandstone figure, generally dated to the Iron Age, with some sources suggesting a date as early as 1,000 BC. The sculpture was found in the 19th century in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
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The Tandragee Idol is the name given to a carved sandstone figure, generally dated to the Iron Age, with some sources suggesting a date as early as 1,000 BC. The sculpture was found in the 19th century in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
The Tandragee Idol (or Tandragee Man) is the name given to a granite or sandstone carving dated to c. 1000–500 BC, found in a peat bog near Tandragee, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland. It is 60 cm (24 in) in height and consists of the torso and head of a grotesque and brutish-looking figure positioned on a stone slab.
This stone figure is called the Tandragee Man because it was found in a garden in Tandragee in Northern Ireland. The statue is approximately 3000 years old and thus dates back to the Bronze age.
The eminent American art-historian Arthur Kingsley Porter was the first scholar to draw attention to the so-called ‘Tandragee idol’ – my AS1 (Kingsley Porter 1934). When he saw it (in 1932) it was in the rockery at Ballymore rectory in Tandragee, Co. Armagh, with some other unspecified sculptural fragments ‘said to have come from Armagh ...
- Richard B Warner
Tandragee (from Irish Tóin re Gaoith, meaning 'backside to the wind') [2] is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is built on a hillside overlooking the Cusher River , in the civil parish of Ballymore and the historic barony of Orior Lower .
This paper begins with a check-list of a number of stone statues that share unusual iconographie artistic characteristics. Most of these statues are now in St Patrick's Cathedral , Armagh, including horned figure popularly known as the 'Tandragee idol'. The paper then details what little is known.
The Tandragee Idol, carved stone image, c.1000 BC. Photo: Reproduced by permission of the Dean and Chapter of St Patrick’s Cathedral (Church of Ireland), Armagh. boat, complete with tiny oars.16 The items seem to have been fashioned, and perhaps deposited as well, in the first century BC.
