Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Aghintober, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghintober
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95094, -8.00257
- SMR number
- LE031-127003-
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
Two whitethorn trees at St Bridget’s Well (LE031-127001-) are known to have been festooned with rags around the time of the saint’s feastday (1st Feb.) in the past but they are now bare within a small beech plantation.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 September, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.