Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Killilagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killilagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02294, -9.37494
- SMR number
- CL008-063005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in the W interior of Killilagh church (CL008-063001-). Identified and photographed by Simon Large (2011). This flat-lying square-shaped stone font base (est. L c. 0.6m; Wth 0.6m) has a subcircular socket (diam. c. 0.23m) in the centre of its flat upper surface. In the middle of that circular socket is another (diam. c. 0.07m) which is deeper. There are four smaller circular holes (diam. c. 0.12m) near each corner of the slab. These sockets would have supported a now-missing font pedestal.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL008-063005-_01.jpg Font base
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 16 January 2023
References
Large, S. 2011 A church and graveyard survey in County Clare. Database and photographic record. Clare County Council. Clare Heritage Forum. The Heritage Council.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.