What is recorded here

Red pine resin dripped from the branch, marking the stone before human hands ever touched it. Pilgrims walked the cashel rounds, rubbed their palms across rough rock, and left plain crosses behind. Some crosses wear thin, some disappear, and new ones appear wherever devotion presses flesh against stone. The city is not built with mortar but with repetition, remembering that faith works through the body before it enters thought.

Within a cashel (KE068-022001-) named 'Cathair Craobh Dearg' and known locally as 'The City'. Pilgrims to this site inscribe plain crosses, some of which are encircled, by repeated rubbing on a variety of stones. Such crosses were noted especially at the holy well (KE068-022007-) at S, at the grotto area at NE and at several other areas where pilgrims walk in the course of making 'rounds'. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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