植栽の中にあったのが「CONG HANDS OF FAME AWARD」のモニュメント。 地球を囲むように広げられた手のシンボルは、人類の団結・感謝・追悼を表しているとのこと。
「Cong Hands of Fame Award(コング・ハンズ・オブ・フェイム賞)」に関する説明パネル。
PUBLIC NOTICE
CONG HANDS OF FAME AWARD
The "Cong Hands of Fame Award" is bestowed to those who have done both the land and her people proud — in Ireland and abroad. It is our own boulevard of fame, and recipients have been nominated by you, the public, and receive a CHOFA award via the Freedom ducks whenever and wherever in the village.
This sculpture is in tribute to all those who served and in memory of all those who died during the Covid pandemic.
“About the sky, where that is clear of cloud
Brightness remains, a brighter star shoots down.”
— W. B. Yeats」
【コング・ハンズ・オブ・フェイム賞
「Cong Hands of Fame Award(コング栄誉の手形賞)」は、アイルランド国内外を問わず、 この土地とその人々に誇りをもたらした人物に贈られるものです。
「Cong Abbey(Mainistir Chonga)案内板 The monastery of Cong, founded in the early 7th century, was destroyed by fire in the early 12th century.Turlough O'Conor, the High King of Ireland, refounded the abbey around 1135, and his son Rory constructed new buildings. The community adopted the Augustinian rule several years later.Soon after, in 1203, t he Norman knight William de Burgo attacked the town, and again the monastery had to be rebuilt.Very little remains of the abbey.The present church and also the fragmentary cloister, where the monks once worked and prayed, belong to the rebuilding of the early 13th century.The north doorway of the church, and the elaborate doorways that open onto the cloister from the east and west, might pre-date the destruction by William de Burgo. The doorway with two fine windows on either side of it belongs to the chapter house, where the monastery’s business was conducted and a chapter of the rule read every day. This was also the place where the monks gathered to confess their sins publicly. The sculpture in the abbey, which suggests links with western France, is some of the finest in Ireland.」