Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font (present location)
Curryhills, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curryhills
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28837, -6.75163
- SMR number
- KD013-014----
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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
Stands outside the entrance to Prosperous church, but according to Comerford (1866, 79) it originally came from the medieval parish church (KD013-019----) in Killybegs Demesne townland, c. 1 mile to the SE. An octagonal limestone font (dims. L 0.64m; Wth 0.64m; each face measuring 0.46m in Wth; H 0.26m) sits on an octagonal limestone column (total H c. 1.5m). One face bears the deeply carved but partially worn figure of an angel with a halo holding a shield across its stomach; a motif which is paralleled on some Co. Meath fonts such as those at Dunsany (MH037-019----) and Rathmore (MH024-017----), which have been dated by Roe to the mid and late-15th c.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.