Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Dooros (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooros (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Bell Tree
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01243, -8.32298
- SMR number
- GA132-013004-
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
Associated with Dooros burial ground (GA132-013001-). Named 'Bell Tree' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. According to the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 515), the name 'originated in a tradition among the people, who say that a bell used to be heard every seven years ringing in it’. Not precisely located. Four trees are shown along the line of the enclosing wall of the graveyard on the 1838 map but it is unclear to which tree the name applies. Current OSi aerial imagery indicates that only two hawthorn trees survive along the wall at NNW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2020
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.