Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Mountgeorge, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountgeorge
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57536, -6.43165
- SMR number
- WX016-060003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the bottom of a NW-facing slope with a NE-SW stream c. 150m to the NW. When St. Maureen, or Odhrán, reached this area he struck his thorn staff into the ground and slept. In the morning a well had sprung up and his staff had turned into a tree. The tree is an ash tree combined with a hawthorn, and offerings were attached to it until visits to the well ceased in the 1980s.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 November, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.