Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Knockseera, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockseera
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.92272, -7.60080
- SMR number
- LA022-013005-
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 an upland area. Associated with St. Kieran of Ossory. A hawthorn bush known as 'St. Kieran's Bush' is situated in NW angle of graveyard (LA022-013002-) (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 129-130). The remains of this hawthorn bush can still be seen in the NW quadrant of the graveyard.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload / revision: 08 March 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.