DISCOVERY OF THE TOMB OF ST. BERICHERT, OR, BERECHTUNE.--Mr. Windele
the local historian of Cork, has circulated among his friends a
Lithographic drawing of this very interesting monument, which he found
at Tullilease, a small hamlet on the border of the Counties of Cork
and Limerick, within a mile of Dromcolleher. The tomb is a much more
highly ornate specimen of an ancient cross than any of those engraved
in Dr. Petrie's work on the Round Towers of Ireland. At Tullilease
there are the ruins of an old Romanesque church, which was dedicated to
St. Berichert or Berihert, a Saxon, whose name is now Anglicised into
Benjamin, and whose death is recorded at A.D. 839, in the Four Masters.
The Legend on the stone is in Latin, (but very sorry Latin), and in
the Irish character. It reads, "QUICUNQUE (for æ) HUNC TITULUM LEGERIT
ORAT (for _orate_ or _oret_) PRO BERECHTUNE." On the upper part of the
stone, in one corner, are the letters pp̄s or pps̄.