Even more popular than jewelry has become the use of the Celtic Cross in tattoos, incorporating the symbol as part of the design or simply having a cross itself as the entire tattoo image.įADO Jewelry has the Celtic High Cross available in sterling silver.Īhenny Cross: Ahenny is an unusual place - a graveyard with two ancient and striking Celtic Crosses. Some of our Celtic Cross rings can be seen here: Trinity and Celtic Cross Wedding Rings. Some wear as part of their clothing ensemble, others have the cross as a design in the jewelry they wear, this has become particularly popular with wedding rings.

People all around the world who identify with the Celtic tradition show their pride by wearing the cross in many ways. Today the Celtic Cross has become a widely popular symbol of Irish/Celtic pride. The style of the Celtic Cross as we know it today has immigrated with the Irish all over the world especially in places like Australia and the Americas. Beginning in the 1850’s it became the fashion to have a carved cross to mark your final resting place or as a monument to someone or something. While there are many places all throughout Ireland that you will find the Celtic Cross the most predominant of these will be the graveyards. It was first used as a religious marker for churches and such, then became a the sign of important places including the birthplace of prominent people and even public markets. The first two areas we see them are Ahenny in Tipperary Ireland and Iona an Irish monastery located off the coast of Scotland. What we do know that they first began to appear in Ireland and Britain around 900 A.D. There is also a more practical line of thinking that the circle was added by artisans who carved them simply to make them sturdier and less vulnerable to damage. While it is not clear how the cross found its way to Ireland and Britain, there is a popular legend which gives credit to St Patrick who was thought to have combined the Christian cross with the circle representing the sun. It appears in their history as a hieroglyphic which was determined to mean simply “life”. When I began looking into the origins of our Celtic Cross, I was surprised to learn that the basic shape ( a cross with a circle around it) can actually be traced back to the Egyptians.

Celtic serenity symbol