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Font (present location)

Leggetsrath West, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Font (present location), Leggetsrath West, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Leggetsrath West
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65563, -7.22816
SMR number
KK019-026378-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In the OPW store, Kilkenny (Kilkenny depot stone carving number: KD013). Possibly from Kells church (KK027-029009-), Co. Kilkenny, though according to Clyne (2007, 157-8) the medieval font currently in St Mary's church, Inistioge is almost certainly from the parish church at Kells Priory.
A piece of the side of a sandstone font or stoup (diam. c. 0.5m; surviving arc L 0.2m; H 0.3m; T 0.07m; int. H 0.25m) surviving from moulded rim (H 0.03m) to flat stepped base (Wth 0.09m; T 0.05m). It is decorated in false relief with a four-leaf foliage motif springing from a stalk, with a wide curving band beneath and the suggestion of another stalk protruding from the base of the band. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century

See attached:
KK019-026378-_01 (photograph by Chris Corlett)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 25 January 2023

References

Clyne, M. 2007 Kells Priory, Co. Kilkenny: archaeological excavations by T. Fanning & M. Clyne. Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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