Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Kilweelran, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilweelran
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Blessed Bush
- Latest-edition OS map
- Blessed Bush (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.10665, -9.09802
- SMR number
- CL006-006002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a small copse of ash trees and fenced off. Indicated and named ‘Blessed Bush’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. An old ivy-clad blackthorn tree, just S of which a spring emerges. The spring now feeds a small concrete water tank and a dry stream bed runs along the W side. A mound (CL006-006001-) is located c. 30m to the S, a children’s burial ground (CL006-003001-) c. 180m to the SSW and an enclosure (CL006-007----) c. 100m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 28 April 2021
References
Houlihan, M. 2016 The sacred trees of county Clare. Privately published.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.