Trees with cloth ornaments are common in the southwest of England, an area
with a celtic background. Much of what I've heard is already written down
in the Wikipedia page for Clootie_Well . Usually they are small stand out
trees, in a woodland setting near a spring or well. I've heard them named
as
On 4/3/24 07:48, Anne-Karoline Distel via Tagging wrote:
Hello there,
does anyone have any opinions about how to map what is called clootie/
cloughtie/ cloutie trees in Scotland and rag trees or raggedy bushes
in Ireland?
There are things like 'Fairy Bridge on the Isle of Man ' mapped a
This reminded me of The Arbor Tree in Aston-on-Clun.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/436200174
It is decorated annually on Oak Apple Day (29th May). It is decorated
with flags these days but it goes a log way back so I assume it was
simpler cloths at one time.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/pho
Oh, forgot to say that when I started with place_of_worship=holy_well,
some people didn't like the word "holy", because it meant only
Christian. That's why I'm not suggesting "holy_tree", but maybe
"sacred_tree" would be an option as well, but it doesn't cover the rags,
of course.
On 03/03/2024 2
Hello there,
does anyone have any opinions about how to map what is called clootie/
cloughtie/ cloutie trees in Scotland and rag trees or raggedy bushes in
Ireland? I have used place_of_worship=rag_tree (to avoid the many
different spellings) in combination with natural=tree, but there is also
a
