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Eó Rossa
Eó Rossa, the Yew of Ross, was one of the five great sacred trees of early Ireland, the famed yew of Leinster at Old Leighlin in County Carlow, praised in a litany of thirty-one poetic epithets and felled, tradition says, by the prayer of Saint Laserian.