Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Tyrrellstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tyrrellstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01505, -7.01551
- SMR number
- KD035-003004-
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
In a graveyard (KD035-003003-), beside a holy well (KD035-003002-) c. 14m S of a church (KD035-003001-). A half-dozen, multicoloured rags are tied to an ash tree, and are associated with an annual pattern held at the well on June 24th. (Jackson 1979-80, 156)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 27 November 2013
References
Jackson, P. 1979-80 The holy wells of Co. Kildare. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 16, 133-61.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.