Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Tipper South, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tipper South
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Baptismal Font
- Coordinates
- 53.20644, -6.62059
- SMR number
- KD019-039003-
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
In a graveyard (KD019-039001-). A gently tapering, octagonal granite basin (max. dims. top L 0.7m; Wth 0.6m; base L 0.46m; Wth 0.4m; H 0.46m; D 0.18m) has a central hole in the base, and on top, on one of the shorter edges, mortices which would have facilitated a hinged lid. (McCabe 1996, 106, 110)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.