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Ritual site - holy tree/bush

Ballingarry (Loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy tree/bush, Ballingarry, County Galway, 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
Ballingarry (Loughrea By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not marked
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.18142, -8.62440
SMR number
GA105-008001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

Associated with a burial ground (GA105-008----). A bush, known locally as a ‘Burying Bush’, stands in close proximity to the burial ground (information from E. Rynne). It may be one of the hawthorn bushes along the NW-SE running field boundary to the W of the burial ground.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 10 January 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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