Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Donore, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donore
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Bush
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25827, -6.76054
- SMR number
- KD018-008----
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
Described in the OSL (Herity 2002, 45 (138)) as, ' … an old White Thorn bush called St. Patrick's Bush, or 'Sgeach Phádruig', (sic), from which circumstance (the field … ) is sometimes called 'the Bush Field'. Named on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as standing to the S of a church (KD013-023001-) at the S end of a graveyard (KD013-023002-). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.