Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Muckross, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muckross
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.02626, -9.49494
- SMR number
- KE066-081005-
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 the centre of and overshadowing the cloister of Muckross Abbey (KE066-081001-). A tall yew tree, whose branches extend over and beyond the cloister arcade, is surrounded by a metal railing. There is a local legend that a miraculous statue is buried beneath it (Moriarity, 1948, 19) and it is also believed locally that that anyone who touches the tree will die shortly afterwards.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Sundialunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.