Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Curraghaun (killeen Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghaun (killeen Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Scrat na nDeor
- Coordinates
- 53.56048, -8.86558
- SMR number
- GA029-061----
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
On the brow of a rise in pastureland. Marked only on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932). No visible surface trace survives. According to local information, the bush was associated with the nearby nunnery of Kilcreevanty (see GA029-096001-)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.