![]() ![]() This article will suggest that previously unrecognised onomastic evidence for the Easter controversy survives within the modern Irish landscape. Establishing potential locations for such churches would certainly provide an avenue for future research, as well as offering a rare opportunity of integrating and dating early Irish ecclesiastical sites within a defined historical context. Despite such problems, the controversy provides us with (in archaeological terms, at least) a relatively short chronological period, during which certain Insular Irish churches professed and celebrated Easter at alternative times and dates. Archaeological attention to the controversy has, understandably to date, remained lacking there being precious little physical evidence that can be securely dated to the historical event. The controversy itself has long fascinated historians of early medieval Ireland. Southern Irish churches are thought to have adopted the Roman method by the 640s AD, with Northern Irish Churches and Iona following by the start of 700s AD. ![]() Throughout the seventh century there seems to have been a gradual acceptance of the new methods and fashions as promoted by Rome. Commonly known as 'The Easter Controversy', or 'The Paschal Question', it polarised elements of the Insular Irish Church. "During the seventh century AD, the Irish Church was involved in a long running ecclesiastical debate concerning Insular (Irish & British) and Roman (Continental European) liturgical practices. ![]()
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