Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Grange Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange Upper
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61537, -7.03642
- SMR number
- KK025-002003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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
Within the nave area of the ruined medieval church of Grangesylvia (KK025-002001-) there is a crude rectangular granite font (max. dims. 0.9m x 0.8m; H 0.37m) with rounded corners. The rectangular bowl (int. dims. 0.56m x 0.46m; D 0.15m; rim T 0.18m) contains a square drain-hole (0.08m x 0.08m) at its centre.
See attached photographs:
KK025-002003-_01 Font with stoup resting within it
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 23 February 2022
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.