Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Glassavullaun, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glassavullaun
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23210, -6.35134
- SMR number
- DU025-033003-
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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 in Kilmasantan (St Ann's) graveyard (DU025-033002-) on the N bank of the River Dodder. A font located to the N of the gate inside the graveyard. This large medieval font (ext. H 0.75m; etx. diam. 0.92m; rim T 0.12-0.09m) has a roughly square-shaped basin (D 0.27-0.29m; Wth 0.74-0.45m) with rounded corners and a drain hole (diam. 0.03m) in the SW corner. The E face is damaged. It is similar to the font (DU021-037009-) at St. Maelrauns in Tallaght. Also within the graveyard is a church (DU025-033001-). In 1179 this church and its lands were a sub-manor of Tallaght and part of the extensive church lands of the See of Dublin. This manor occupied the upper eastern Dodder Valley (Nolan 1992, 185).
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Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 10 march 2023
References
Nolan, W. 1992 Society and settlement in the valley of Glenasmole c. 1750-c.1900. In F.H.A. Aalen and K. Whelan (eds), Dublin city and county: from prehistory to present. Dublin. Geography Publications.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.