Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Ballingarry (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.