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Ritual site - holy tree/bush

Noughaval (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy tree/bush, Noughaval, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Noughaval (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01600, -9.17882
SMR number
CL009-059128-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Associated with a holy well (CL009-059026-) named 'Tobermogua'. Referred to by Westropp (1900-1902, 133) as a ‘holy tree’, which he described as ‘an uncouth and ancient ash tree’ (ibid., 1897, 117). According to local information, the old tree c. 1m to the W of the well is regarded as a holy tree. On inspection in May 1997, no votive offerings or rags were tied to it and local people did not recall ever seeing any on it. A medieval church (CL009-059023-) and graveyard (CL009-059024-) lie c. 80m to the SW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 30 March 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The churches of Co. Clare and the origin of the ecclesiastical divisions in that county. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Series 3, vol. 6, 100-180.

Westropp, T.J. 1896 Prehistoric stone forts of northern Clare, parts I & II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 26, 142-58, 362-9.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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