Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font (present location)
Swords Demesne, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Swords Demesne
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.45796, -6.21738
- SMR number
- DU011-070----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in porch at north doorway of RC church. This is a round bowl-shaped font decorated with a vine leaf ornamentation. It rests on top of a later pedestal (diam.0.44m, D 0.34m). It has a flat-bottomed interior. Thought to have come from Killossery (DU011-005001-). Now planted with flowers.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 09 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Barracksunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.