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Font

Rathcoole, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Font, Rathcoole, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rathcoole
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.27845, -6.47161
SMR number
DU021-031----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This is a hemispherical piece of granite with hollowed upper surface (diam. 0.6m x D 0.45m). It is situated beside a fence in a field known as the 'trough field'. It narrows to a point along the inner base. Local tradition records that it was used as a holy water font attached to a local church (Ua Broin 1943, 73, 85).

References

Ua Broin, L. 1943 Rathcoole, County Dublin and its neighbourhood. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 73, 88.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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