Bile

Yes in the least forested land in Europe trees where once sacred.

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Bile or sacred trees are just that trees seen as sacred and associated with various properties. The trees them selves or rather the type may also be personified as a Déi for example Coll is often personified as a character with other characters styling them selves as descendent from it e.g. Mac Coll for example.

The trees them selves are seen as sacred and associated with various properties, this ties into the more practical aspects of religion / life teaching for the Druids. 7 types of trees are commonly noted.

Types

These are types often noted by name as sacred, this suggests that the type its self was important in these cases. It should also be noted that individual trees had great significance as well both politically for kings and other leaders and culturally and religiously for peoples, places, events and so forth.

Darach

Oak

Fuinseog

Ash

Úll

Apple

Coll

Hazel

Fearnóg

Alder

Ruis

Elder

Lúr

Yew

References

Few references at all remain for the bronze age but we do see early iron age references to trees being important political and religious symbols often the focus of attack by opposing forces