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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone Alternative Name: The Onernus Cross, The Milk StoneCountry: Ireland (Republic of)
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County: Co. Wicklow Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Laragh Nearest Village: Derrybawn
Map Ref: T126969
Latitude: 53.011274N Longitude: 6.323129W
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
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The famous monastic site of Glendalough (Glen da Loch) owes its foundation to St Kevin (Coemghan) the hermit 528-619 CE. He was a prince of Leinster but he abandoned that way of life for a Christian one.
At the gateway there is an early Christian cross-slab with an inscription; also within the monastic enclosure, the Deer Stone, which is conical-shaped with a depression, St Kevin's granite high cross is 11 foot high and dates from the 10th-11th century CE, the ruins of St Kevin's Cathedral and the well preserved St Kevin's Kitchen or church and a 30 metre high round tower, dating from the 10th-12th century CE.
In the east wall of the gateway there is a cross-inscribed stone slab with a very decorative incised cross and a rather curious inscription. The cross is formed from double banding with knotwork interlacing at the four ends. In the centre of the cross there is a seperate circle and there is a rectangular margin around the edges of the slab. The inscription is a curious one. It reads: ON OOONERNI IN XPIS and probably recalls someone called Onernus or Onerninus from the 6th-7th century CE.
Some 15 metres from St Kevin's Kitchen The Deer Stone (locally called a ballaun stone) has a famous legend attributed to it. According to the legend, the wife of one of the saint's labourers died during childbirth. But St Kevin prayed at the stone afterwhich a deer came along and deposited some milk in the depression. The baby drank some of this milk and survived to become very healthy. At either side of the Deer Stone there are large stones - could these have once formed part of a prehistoric monument?
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