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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: St Berchert's Cross Slab (Tullylease) Alternative Name: St Berechtir's Tomb Stone, The Tullylease CrossCountry: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 0.304 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Cork Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Charleville Nearest Village: Tullylease
Map Ref: R360184
Latitude: 52.313969N Longitude: 8.939171W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 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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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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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 |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The grid reference is for the village centre. Tullylease monastic site near Cahernagh dates from the 6th century but today only a ruined church remains along with a 6th-9th century carved cross-slab or gravestone of the local saint, Berechert.
He was an Englishman who fled to Ireland. According to the legend, he was a Saxon prince who was a follower of Colman, bishop of Lindisfarne. But when the bishop was overthrown by St Wilfrid at the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD, Berchert fled the country. There was, apparently, a clash between the Celtic and Roman churches. Berchert settled at Tullylease in Ireland where he founded a monastery. Various dates are given for his death...615, 700 and 839 CE.
In the ruins of St Berchert's church stands the saint's gravestone. This has a richly sculptured cross made up of key patterning and, interlaced knotwork in the central circle. A smaller central circle symbolizes 'the ever present God' There is an inscription recalling BERACHTUINE with a prayer asking us to remember him, and also some Greek letters included in the inscription. It is said that the slab marked the saint's grave.
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