Sampler by Mary Scanlon

 Scanlon, Mary – Rathcormac School, Castletown. An unusual blackwork Sampler of large proportions, sewn mainly in Cross Stitch by Mary Scanlon in 1865. A double wave border surrounds alphabets & numerals worked in several fancy styles of lettering above a number of Christian symbols including a centrally positioned IHS in which the bar above the “H”, signifying the elision, has been depicted as a Latin Cross. Framed & glazed.