Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Ballymore Eustace East (ballymore Eustace Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore Eustace East (ballymore Eustace Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13146, -6.60657
- SMR number
- KD029-011010-
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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
According to Bradley et al. (1986, vol. 1, 79-80), the font stands in the porch of a 19th-century church, in a graveyard (KD029-011004-). A cylindrical granite stone (diam. 0.77m; H 0.47m) contains a bowl (diam 0.54m; D 0.25-0.26m) which is almost straight-sided and has a flat base with a central circular drain-hole (diam. 0.09m). The rim of the bowl is flat but has broken away at one point and was subsequently replaced with concrete. It is possibly 12th-century in date.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigial (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.