Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Ardrass Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardrass Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32701, -6.58482
- SMR number
- KD010-024001-
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
Shearman (1874-5, 306), records that a holy well (KD010-024----) was 'still frequented by pilgrims who hang up votive offerings of rags on an ancient thorn which overhangs the well'. The well lies in a small thicket on the S-roadside at the N-foot of St Patrick's Hill (OD 308 feet). None of the bushes/trees in the vicinity appear to carry votive offerings.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.