St. Colmans Tree, ritual site in County Waterford

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What is recorded here

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.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA038-020005

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