Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Knocklucas, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklucas
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.34616, -7.68461
- SMR number
- WA001-013001-
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 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a shelf on the W side of the deep ravine of a S-N stream at the N foothills of the Comeragh Mountains, with a wide view N-E which is dominated by Slievenamon to the NE. There is a rag tree, a whitethorn bush festooned with cloths, just to the E of Tobar na Gréine holy well (WA001-013----).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 1 December 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Spa works/bathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.