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The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle N-facing slope in a small wooded area surrounded by marsh and rough meadow, in the Glen of Aherlow at the foot of the Galty mountains. At 'St Berrihert's Kyle' where there is an island in the marsh which formed the ecclesiastical enclosure (TS074-010----) for the 7th-century saint. On this island there a stone-walled enclosure built by the OPW in 1946 for the purpose of securing and displaying cross-slabs which were found at the location (Ó hÉailidhe 1967, 102). On the SE side, at the base of the wall there is a cross-base consisting of a roughly rectangular block (dims. 1m x 1.25m; H 0.4m) with rectangular socket (dims. 0.23m x 0.38m; D 0.18m). On the surface of the cross-base there is a shallow, oval depression (dims. 0.28m x 0.36m; D 0.08m), interpreted as a bullaun (ibid., 108).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 03 July 2014

References

Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1967 The crosses and slabs at St. Berrihert's Kyle in the Glen of Aherlow. In E. Rynne (ed.), North Munster Studies, 102-126. Limerick. The Thomond Archaeology Society.