Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Sherlockstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sherlockstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Baptismal Font
- Coordinates
- 53.26400, -6.64715
- SMR number
- KD014-043002-
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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
In a graveyard (KD014-043003-), on the site of a medieval parish church (KD014-043001-). A plain, rectangular baptismal font (dims. L 0.71m; Wth 0.66m; H 0.34m), contains a shallow, rectangular depression (dims. L 0.43m; Wth 0.38m; D 0.2m), and two small mortices which, Sherlock (1899-1902, 298-9) explains, would have contained 'iron rivets leaded into the stone for the cover and lock required by the Constitution of Edward, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1236' . Sherlock also compares the font to one from Gower in south Wales (op cit). The font may be 13th century in date.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Wayside cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside cross (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.