Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Whitechurch, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitechurch
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Baptismal Font
- Coordinates
- 53.28770, -6.60424
- SMR number
- KD014-022007-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in the nave of a fortified church (KD014-022001-). A well-finished, almost square, granite font (dims. L 0.56m; Wth 0.53m; H 0.31m) with a well cut basin (dims. L 0.42m; Wth 0.39m; D 0.13m) and a drain-hole.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.