Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Lecarrow (pallas Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lecarrow (pallas Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bile (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.15558, -8.34868
- SMR number
- GA117-064001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA117-064002-) and to the E of children’s burial ground (GA117-064003-). Named ‘Holy Well (Site of)’ on the 1917 edition of the OS 6-inch map and ‘Bile (Site of)’ on the 1947 revision. The latter term refers to a large ancient tree that was held in veneration (Joyce 1923, 96). No visible surface trace survives. According to local information, the tree died in the early 1900s. Water that collected in a small pool in the trunk of the tree probably resulted in it being named as a holy well on the 1917 map. When the tree died the well transferred to an ash tree to the N - see GA117-064005-.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2017
References
Joyce, P.W. 1923 (1996 ed.) Irish local names explained. Dublin. Roberts Books.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.