Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font (present location)
Grange Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange Lower
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.63330, -6.99456
- SMR number
- KK021-055----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
In St George’s Church, Goresbridge, previously known as St Mary’s Church. The font was moved here from the medieval church of Powerstown (KK025-007001-), Powerstown East, which lies 3.1km to the SSW, in c. 1812 (see KK025-007002-) (Grattan-Bellew 1979, 45).
Nearby in the register
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.