Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Ross (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ross (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47963, -9.13166
- SMR number
- GA041-047005-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Presently located in the yard of a farmhouse (see GA041-003----), this lugged font (max. base Wth 0.38m; Wth at top 0.46m; H 0.35m) may have been originally located at ‘Ross Abbey’ (GA041-047----), which lies c. 670m to the NNW. Only the bowl (base Wth 0.1m-0.28m; Wth at top 0.3m; D 0.28m) survives. It was fashioned out of a single block of limestone which is now in three fragments as a result of shattering during a spell of severe frosts.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 26 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.