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<< Our Photo Pages >> The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone - Early Christian Sculptured Stone in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Wicklow

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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone Alternative Name: The Onernus Cross, The Milk Stone
Country: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 0.313 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Co. Wicklow Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Laragh  Nearest Village: Derrybawn
Map Ref: T126969
Latitude: 53.011274N  Longitude: 6.323129W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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3 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone
The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone submitted by KaiHofmann : Glendalough early christian monastery. At the right, in the shadow, the ancient cross. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Early Christian Sculptured Stone in Co. Wicklow
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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The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone
The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone submitted by KaiHofmann : Glendalough small early christian church. The deer stone is situated behind the building at the other side of a small river. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone
The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone submitted by KaiHofmann : The deer stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone
The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone submitted by KaiHofmann : In the foreground, the deer stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone
The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone submitted by KaiHofmann : Glendalough early christian monastery. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone
The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone submitted by Sunny100 : Drawing by J.Romilly Allen from 'Early Christian Symbolism in Great Britain and Ireland Before the 13th Century' (1889). The cross-slab at the entrance to the monastic site of Glendalough, Co Wicklow. The stone has an elaborately carved cross and also a curious inscription probably from the 6th-7th century CE.

The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone
The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone submitted by durhamnature : The Deer Stone bullan, from "Dublin and Wicklow..." via archive.org

The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone
The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone submitted by KaiHofmann : The deer stone.

The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone
The Glendalough Cross and Deer Stone submitted by KaiHofmann : The deer stone bowl.

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