Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Blanchvillestown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blanchvillestown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.63081, -7.12535
- SMR number
- KK020-057003-
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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
Within the medieval church of Kylebeg (KK020-057001-). When noted by Hewson (1893, 208) the font, 'lies broken and half buried in the ground, and concealed in grass, between the north-east corner of the church and the public road'. The font was subsequent moved inside the church and now rests against the N wall of the nave, immediately E of the doorway. A plain limestone font is square in plan (dims. 0.56m x 0.56m; H 0.25m) and has a circular basin (int. diam. 0.41m; D 0.22m; rim T 0.04m) with a small drain-hole at its center. The base (dims. 0.45m x 0.4m) has a groove (Wth 0.02m) to receive the bowl and the surface is incised with an X.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 December 2020
References
Hewson, Canon E.F. 1893 Miscellanea - churches of Claragh, Blanchvilleskill and Tullaherin'. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 23, 207-10.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.