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At the foot of a mature hawthorn tree (CL005-168001-) in reclaimed pasture on the W side of an old road leading N into the Rathborney valley. The associated tree is indicated and named ‘Ancient Thorn’ on the 1839 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Houlihan (2016, 44) noted that the associated tree is known locally as ‘Saint Brigid’s tree’ and that it is still visited by pilgrims, ‘having gained a reputation for holiness from a stone at its base thought by locals to hold the prints of a kneeling Saint Brigid’. The stone was not found on inspection in 1998 but a stone with a pair of hollows at the base of the tree is published and photographed by Houlihan (ibid).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 8 October 2025
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