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Font

Blanchvillestown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Font, Blanchvillestown, 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
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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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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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.

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