Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killiney
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25470, -6.11631
- SMR number
- DU026-013005-
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
Killiney church ruins are located on the Marino Avenue West, leading E off Killiney Hill road. Medieval baptismal font of Killiney (Cill Iníon Léinín/church of the seven daughters of Léinín) monastery founded in the 6th-century by its patron saint Aighleann and her sisters, now standing inside the church ruins (DU026-013001-) in Killiney graveyard (DU026-013002-), Co. Dublin. Remains consist of a roughly circular-shaped or bowl-shaped granite font (diam. 0.46m) standing on the floor of the N aisle of the medieval church of Killiney.
To see a 3D model of this font, visit: https://skfb.ly/oEzyU
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 31 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.