Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Cookstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cookstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88704, -6.57329
- SMR number
- LH014-058----
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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
A greenstone holy water or baptismal font, located outside the SE wall of the former Charlestown Rectory. Cylindrical in shape with a small rib projecting slightly at the base. The basin is 0.29m in depth and tapers considerably from a large circular mouth (diam. 0.27m) to a small flat circular bottom (diam. 0.06m). (SMR file)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 30 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.