Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Naas West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Naas West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22059, -6.66075
- SMR number
- KD019-030058-
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
On the site of the Augustinian Priory of St John the Baptist (KD019-030010-). In 1990, archaeological testing (O’Carroll F. Excavation Licence No. 90E0022) in advance of a proposed development recorded a sub-rectangular granite font, of possible medieval date, at the site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 16 January 2013-01-16
References
O'Carroll, F. 1990 Report on trial trenching to the rear of the Parochial House, Naas, Co. Kildare. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.