Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Killeighter, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeighter
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42592, -6.74334
- SMR number
- KD004-031005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located immediately to the S of a Holy Well (KD004-031004-) at the N end of a graveyard (KD004-031003-). A mature ash tree has numerous votive offerings attached - rosary beads, holy medals, scapulars, St Patrick's Day badges and small crosses made from twigs.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.