Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Kill of The Grange, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kill of The Grange
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28137, -6.16094
- SMR number
- DU023-015009-
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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
Situated on a low rise, in a green area, NE of Kill Abbey road. A stone font which came originally from Kill of the Grange is now located inside the Church of Ireland at Deansgrange (DU023-016----) (Healy 1975, 1-19).
The site is located within a complex which includes a pre-Norman church with a late medieval chancel (DU023-015001-), a graveyard (DU023-015002-), a holly well (DU023-015003-) a bullaun stone (DU023-015007-), a graveslab (DU023-015005-), the base of a stone cross (DU023-015008-), and two crosses (DU023-015004) from the former laneway into the graveyard which are now in the care of the OPW in Trim, county Meath.
See attached photograph of font in the graveyard at Kill of the Grange taken by Paddy Healy, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/2174
DU023-015009-_02 photograph of font from Kill of the Grange taken by Paddy Healy, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/3186
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 12 January 2023
References
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.