Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Mooreabbey Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mooreabbey Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13601, -7.06273
- SMR number
- KD026-001001-
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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 modern chapel just N of Moore Abbey house. A fine circular font (diam. 0.6m; H 0.5m) decorated with eight arcaded panels, each with an angel, and rope moulding, stands on a later pedestal, the base of which may be medieval. It may have come from a now levelled church shown to the N of the house on a 1759 map of Monasterevin Demesne by Scale (NLI Ms. 21. F. 37 (131-71) Map 147), or from the Carmelite abbey (KD026-001----) which once stood here.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.