Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Harristown, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Harristown
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fairy bush
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17869, -7.01383
- SMR number
- WA027-008----
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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)
- 1869 · 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as the site of a Fairy Bush at Fairy Bush crossroads, a five-road junction, on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a rise with the N-S ridge of Carrickadhirra rising over it c. 600m to the NNE. The location is known locally and was situated inside the field bank on the NW side of the road junction. According to Power (1906, 39) there may have been a cairn associated with it, but nothing is now visible at ground level.
Power, Rev. P. (1906a) The place-names of the Decies WAJ 9, 12-39, 80-106, 154-70, 228-65.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.