Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Clonmore (ballybrit By.),oakleypark, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonmore (ballybrit By.),oakleypark
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Kierans Bush & Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.06719, -7.79454
- SMR number
- OF039-005----
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
Hawthorn bush known locally as 'St Kierans Bush' with rags attached for curative purposes located to the S of St Kierans church and graveyard (OF039-003001-). At the base of the bush there is a flagstone known as St Kierans Stone (OF039-005001-) with hollow depressions which according to local tradition that these are the kneeprints and handprints of St Kieran. One of the stations on the pattern held on St Kieran's day.
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
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.