Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Killarga, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killarga
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.22775, -8.20368
- SMR number
- LE015-105004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the base of a S-facing slope and just SW of the enclosure of St Mary's holy well (LE015-105001-). A rag-tree, which is a mature deciduous tree, is enclosed in a small cairn (diam. 2m; max. H 0.6m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 September, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.