Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Lurgan (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.