Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Bobsville, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bobsville
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71519, -7.06927
- SMR number
- ME015-056012-
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 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a gently undulating landscape. St. Kevin’s Well (ME015-056011-) is across the road to the SW of the site of the early church of St. Caomhan Breac that became the parish church of Diamor (ME015-056001-). Six steps lead down from the road to the well, and there is a young rag tree where the well emerges into a stream. This is a replacement for an old ash tree that fell in 1971 (Moore and Kenny 1976, 33).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 June, 2014
References
Moore, B. F. E. and Kenny, M. 1976 Tombstones in Clonabreany graveyard. Ríocht na Midhe, 6, 2, 16-36.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.