Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Kill of The Grange, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kill of The Grange
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.27207, -6.15534
- SMR number
- DU023-027002-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in green area to the west of residential areas of Hillview Drive overlooking a small stream. A holy busy or a 'sceach' marking or close to a holy well (DU023-027002-; Stokes 1895, 5; Daly 1957, 21-22). The well was piped and later removed in the early 1980s (pers com Liam Clare/Foxrock Local History Club).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 25 June 2018
References
Stokes, Rev. G.T. 1895 The antiquities from Kingstown to Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 5-15.
Daly, M. 1957 Curative wells in old Dublin. Dublin Historical Record 17, 13-24.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.