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Ritual site

Ritual site, holy tree/bush

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Ritual site is a ritual site, holy tree or bush in Tully (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. A hollow ash tree with a 6.7m circumference stands at the western edge of the adjacent cairn, identified in local tradition as St Patrick's Walking Stick. The tree occupies a shelf on a south-facing slope overlooking a southeastern bog, situated twenty metres north of the church across the Bellanagare to Castlerea road.
On a shelf towards the bottom of a S-facing slope overlooking a bog to the SE, and c. 20m N of church (RO021-022008-), which is on the other (S) side of the NE-SW Bellanagare to Castlerea road. At the W edge of the cairn (RO021-022005-) is a hollow ash tree (Circumference 6.7m), known as St Patrick's Walking Stick (Knox 1902c, 189). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 3 July, 2015

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