Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Kilcolman, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcolman
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Colmans Tree
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.98855, -7.68311
- SMR number
- WA038-020005-
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)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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
Situated on a plateau on a gentle S-facing slope. 'St Deglan's Tree' is recored on the Grand Jury map of Co. Waterford dated 1819 (NLI: 16 j 4), and 'St Colman's Tree' is marked on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Tober Cholmain holy well (WA038-020003-) was situated close to a sacred tree at Kilcolman church (WA038-020002-) (Fitzgerald 1856-7, 40-43), but it is no longer extant.
FitzGerald, E. (1856-7) Proceedings – “Jottings in archaeology”, JRSAI 4, 40-49, 289-91.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 10th October, 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.