Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font (present location)
Saggart, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Saggart
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28092, -6.44214
- SMR number
- DU021-034016-
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
A granite font (dims. ext. H 0.55m x diam. 0.85m; rim T 0.14m) with circular shaped basin (diam. 0.5m x D 0.17m) and side drainage hole (diam. 0.07m) was located in Saggart graveyard (DU021-034003-) and has been moved from the graveyard to the nearby parochial house for safe keeping. The church (DU021-034002-) and graveyard was built on the site of the 7th-century monastery founded by St Mosacra.
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Cross-reference with DU021-034015-
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.