Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Hartwell Lower, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hartwell Lower
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indciated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23858, -6.57577
- SMR number
- KD020-004001-
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
Associated with St Brigid's Holy Well (KD020-004----). Fitzgerald (1915-7, 494) records that, 'Some years ago a sally tree stood near it (the holy well), which bore the usual load of votive rags etc.'
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.