Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Gorteen (decies Without Drum By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (decies Without Drum By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11552, -7.59281
- SMR number
- WA031-014002-
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
Situated at the foot of a S-facing slope. St Gehan's Well (WA031-014----) is covered by a lintel. Some stones, the last remnants of a penitential cairn (WA031-014001-), have been placed on the lintel and there is an iron ringed-cross nearby. It is known locally that there was a rag-tree at one time, but this has been removed without trace.
Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 2011.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.