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Ritual site - holy tree/bush

Lurgan (Dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy tree/bush, Lurgan, 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
Lurgan (Dunkellin By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.19367, -8.64402
SMR number
GA105-029010-

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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

Some 90m to the N of a church (GA105-029001-). Described by Rynne (1975, 102-3) as a sacred ash tree, which was known locally as ‘The Blessed Tree’. It was ‘killed in September 1961 by Hurricane Debbie’. Rynne (ibid.) also noted a young ash growing in the huge hollow trunk; it was 'surrounded by a ring of stones within which, now partly under the dead trunk, is a double cavity bullaun (GA105-029009-)'. The tree was venerated up to c. 1950. Not visited by the Survey.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 14 January 2020

References

Rynne, E. 1974-5 Some ancient finds from Boherduff, Co. Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 34, 102-3.

Nearby in the register

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

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