Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Cloonnafunshin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonnafunshin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Macduaghs Tree
- Latest-edition OS map
- Macduaghs Tree (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.04654, -8.88476
- SMR number
- GA128-034016-
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
Part of the monastic complex at Kilmacduagh. Named on the OS 6-inch maps, ‘Macduagh’s Tree’ was located at the junction of three roads, c. 250m to the SE of the round tower (GA128-034008-). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 October 2016
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/2009).
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.