Wearing a heart as a ring design would strike as corny to a few, but when it's been originated in a Irish fishing village of Claddagh, the significance of the symbolic elements are hard not to be stupefied by. The ring was first produced in the 17th century, during the reign of Queen Mary II.
  The Claddagh ring is a traditional Irish ring given as a token of love or worn as a wedding ring. The two hands depict - Friendship, which clasp the Heart - Love, usually surmounted by a crown - Loyalty. Defining statuses, such as, the ring worn on the right ring finger with the heart pointing to the fingertip, means the wearer is free of any attachment and the wearer is romantically involved, when the similar positioned ring has been turned around. The wedding ring is an heirloom in the Irish family and is passed on from the mother to her daughter first married and so on to their descendants.
  A Heart-shaped birthstone mounted on the ring in place of the metal heart, serves as an excellent gift for a friend. The Claddagh wedding band has quite an exclusive and exotic design as seen above.
  Jim Morrison of The Doors and Irish American author, Patricia Kennealy- Morrison exchanged Claddagh during their Celtic Pagan handfasting, which is a traditional European ceremony of betrothal or wedding. Jill Maderson in the James Bond novel Goldfinger, wore a gold Claddagh ring. A lot of  recently released movies such as Leap year and Kill the Irishman have characters proposing to their loved one's with a claddagh ring. Along with Hollywoods latest obsession for the Irishman and his inimitable accent and madness, comes the birth of the Claddagh ring on the big screen.