Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Graigue (cullenagh By.),moat, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigue (cullenagh By.),moat
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.89624, -7.27634
- SMR number
- LA030-047001-
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
Holy bush located at the side of a road leading to the village of Ballinakill in an upland area 480m to the NW of Dysart church (LA030-011001-). Whitethorn bush covered with rags attached to the branches of the bush. Base of high cross (LA030-011003; LA030-047002-) located at the base of the bush, this cross base appears to have been moved from Dysart church (LA030-011001-).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.