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Ritual site - holy tree/bush

Kill of The Grange, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy tree/bush, Kill of The Grange, County Dublin, 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
Kill of The Grange
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.27207, -6.15534
SMR number
DU023-027002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

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

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

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