Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Eanach Dhúin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eanach Dhúin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- GA069-001019-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Writing in the late 18th C, Archdall noted the existence of 'St. Columkill's tree, the legend of the miraculous jump of which is still told' (as quoted in Cochrane 1901, 320). He placed it 'to the east [of the 'Nunnery' (GA069-001005-)], and adjoining the road'. This would place it somewhere in the vicinity of E (roadside) boundary of the modern graveyard; not located.
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