Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Killinure (Upperwoods By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killinure (Upperwoods By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.04717, -7.55290
- SMR number
- LA011-023002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Originally in use in Killinure R. C. church (LA011-023), it was moved during Penal times to 'Burke's Cross' (LA011-005-) where Mass was said in the open (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 152). A limestone subcircular font (Dims NW-SE c. 0.65m, NE-SW c. 0.75m, D c. 0.23m) with central draining hole.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.