Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Clonaddadoran, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonaddadoran
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- SMR number
- LA017-024----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated holy bush within townland described by Helen Roe her unpublished report entitled Rude Stone Monuments in County laoighis, as 'In Clonaddadoran on May Day bushes are decorated with flowers, coloured papers or strings of eggshells and stuck up outside the house in the middle of the yard. Families collected eggshells for months before hand - one family had 105 eggshells this May Day (1932)'
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
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