Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Gallen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26270, -7.82331
- SMR number
- OF014-029004-
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
No surface remains of a Holy Tree described in 1934-5 by T. D. Kendrick as 'Nothing was found in the trenches cut in the flat river-meadow east of a line between the Holy Tree and the knoll and nothing on the western side of the drive' (Kendrick 1939, 2).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.