Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Canon Island, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canon Island
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67911, -9.03727
- SMR number
- CL060-011008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the floor in the SW doorway leading from the church to the cloister of the Augustinian religious house on Canon Island (CL060-011002-). A plain limestone block (H 0.3m; 0.36m x 0.34m) with a circular basin (diam. 0.25m; D 0.18m). One corner is broken away.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL060-011008-_01.jpg View of font in doorway from NW.
CL060-011008-_02.jpg View of font from above.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.