Andreas F. Borchert
@afborchert.bsky.social
Computer scientist & church crawler living in 🇩🇪 who loves to travel in 🇮🇪 and 🇫🇷. Photographs are all my own except where noted.
Happy St. Patrick's Day! The stained glass window is from St. Mary of the Rosary, Cong, Co. Mayo, and depicts St. Patrick giving benediction to a king. Created by Earley Studios in Dublin.
March 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Happy St. Patrick's Day! The stained glass window is from St. Mary of the Rosary, Cong, Co. Mayo, and depicts St. Patrick giving benediction to a king. Created by Earley Studios in Dublin.
Oil painting by Sarah Purser (1848–1943), depicting the village of Doogort at the north coast of Achill Island, Co. Mayo. 150 x 220 mm; painted in 1923/4; was in the posession of Richard Irvine Best. Now in the collection of Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda. With their kind permission.
January 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Oil painting by Sarah Purser (1848–1943), depicting the village of Doogort at the north coast of Achill Island, Co. Mayo. 150 x 220 mm; painted in 1923/4; was in the posession of Richard Irvine Best. Now in the collection of Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda. With their kind permission.
I've been just two times in Glendalough so far (1987 and 2016), so 5 visits to go! One of my favourites is St. Saviour's Priory, founded by St. Laurence O'Toole in 1162 as house of Augustinian Canons. It was dissolved early in 1398. Luckily, its magnificent elements of the Irish Romanesque survived.
January 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I've been just two times in Glendalough so far (1987 and 2016), so 5 visits to go! One of my favourites is St. Saviour's Priory, founded by St. Laurence O'Toole in 1162 as house of Augustinian Canons. It was dissolved early in 1398. Luckily, its magnificent elements of the Irish Romanesque survived.
A unique baptismal font of the 15th or 16th century, prominently displaying the flight into Egypt, is to be found in St. Finian's church in Clonard. The font is probably the work of John Cusack, son of Sir Thomas Cusack who received the remainings of Clonard Abbey in 1551.
January 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A unique baptismal font of the 15th or 16th century, prominently displaying the flight into Egypt, is to be found in St. Finian's church in Clonard. The font is probably the work of John Cusack, son of Sir Thomas Cusack who received the remainings of Clonard Abbey in 1551.
The Augustinian friars are still active in Drogheda. St. Augustine's Church was designed by the Dublin architect Michael B. Moran in an Early English Victorian Gothic Revival style and built in 1856–1866. One of the remarkable features is the 7-light west window from 1934 by Harry Clarke studios.
![7-light west window with scenes from the life of St. Augustine: “St Augustine and St Monica, Augustine as the sledgehammer of heresy, Augustine and St Alypius on their conversion, Augustine alone, Baptism of Augustine, Augustine preaching to Augustinian friars, and [..] the presentation of the cincture to St Monica by the Virgin.” (Quoted from C. Casey and A. Rowan). Created by Harry Clarke studios (after the death of Harry Clarke who died in 1931). The window was erected in memory of Father Denis Crotty who died in August 1932.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gd5e3eaehjtfaaddnbpb5nx4/bafkreid536axantlifozvytptiiouirpwif2hyumpgae5ahydwojselt2m@jpeg)
November 24, 2024 at 9:52 PM
The Augustinian friars are still active in Drogheda. St. Augustine's Church was designed by the Dublin architect Michael B. Moran in an Early English Victorian Gothic Revival style and built in 1856–1866. One of the remarkable features is the 7-light west window from 1934 by Harry Clarke studios.
Ruins of the priory of Augustinian friars in Drogheda, founded end of the 13th century. The priory was surrendered 1543 and most of its building were demolished afterwards. The most prominent surviving elements are the tower and the arch of the east window.
November 24, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Ruins of the priory of Augustinian friars in Drogheda, founded end of the 13th century. The priory was surrendered 1543 and most of its building were demolished afterwards. The most prominent surviving elements are the tower and the arch of the east window.
This engraving presents the Boyne Viaduct in Drogheda in its original design by John B. Macneill as built in 1851–1855 with a lattice truss structure in the three centre segments which were replaced in 1932. The photo has been taken with friendly permission by the Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda.
November 24, 2024 at 6:10 PM
This engraving presents the Boyne Viaduct in Drogheda in its original design by John B. Macneill as built in 1851–1855 with a lattice truss structure in the three centre segments which were replaced in 1932. The photo has been taken with friendly permission by the Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda.
Church in Saint-Marcouf, Manche, at the site where St. Marcouf founded a monastery in the 6th century. The crypt is still Romanesque and served as shelter during WW2. The baptismal font is from the 11th or 12th century employing a former base of a column. All other parts are 13th or 15th century.
November 24, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Church in Saint-Marcouf, Manche, at the site where St. Marcouf founded a monastery in the 6th century. The crypt is still Romanesque and served as shelter during WW2. The baptismal font is from the 11th or 12th century employing a former base of a column. All other parts are 13th or 15th century.