Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Shanacloon (toem Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanacloon (toem Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58018, -8.19596
- SMR number
- TS050-019001-
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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
Adjacent to a natural spring holy well (TS050-019002-) situated on a slight rise of ground with a nearby river, a tributary of the Dead River, c. 13m to the W. The well was covered in by Tipperary South County Council in the 1940s when a water pump was placed on the site of the well (local information). A nearby holy bush in the form of a thorn bush was located beside the well and was referred to as 'Skagh-minoge' upon which fragments of clothing were attached as votive offerings (Seymour 1917, 39). There are several bushes beside the well, none bearing rags, one of which may be the holy bush. A bullaun stone (TS050-021----) was moved from this location to a garden c. 230m to the NE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Seymour, Rev. St. J. 1917 Notes on a Tipperary parish. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 23, 36-42.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.