Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Ballyman, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyman
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.20373, -6.15071
- SMR number
- DU028-002009-
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
Situated at the bottom of a valley on a S facing slope overlooking the N bank of the County Brook. A holy tree associated with the ecclesiastical remains of a small rectangular building associated with an ecclesiastical enclosure (DU028-002001-) (Anon 1900, 187, 193).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 28 July 2018
References
Anon. 1900 Excursion to Tully, Rathmichael, Kiltiernan and other places in south County Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 30, 180-92.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.