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Townparks (upper Dundalk By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (upper Dundalk By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.00953, -6.40270
- SMR number
- LH007-119035-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Rests on a large boulder in the grounds of St. Nicholas's Catholic Church. According to tradition it belonged originally to the church of the Franciscan Monastery at Seatown and was later used as a baptismal font in the old chapel in Chapel Lane, which was built in 1750. The font is a large irregular shaped boulder with an uneven cavity forming the basin. (CLAJ 1910, 305-6)
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.