Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font (present location)
Baile An Fheirtéaraigh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile An Fheirtéaraigh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.16654, -10.40608
- SMR number
- KE042-174----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This stone font was formerly in Ballywiheen Church (Teampall Bhaile Bhoithín). It consists of a roughly circular, flat-bottomed stone basin with a central perforation in its base. The basin is 0.25m deep and a maximum of 0.25m in diameter internally. A second, roughly circular, flat-bottomed basin, now damaged, is 0.38m in diameter but only 0.8m deep internally. It, too, is perforated through the base and it seems likely that the first basin was intended to sit inside the second basin and that both probably rested on a pedestal.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne (1986), no. 981.
Updated by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 10 November 2014
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