Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Dromin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84435, -6.43550
- SMR number
- LH018-014002-
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
A plain octagonal-shaped sandstone font with chamfered under-panels. Bowl has flat bottom with central drain hole. Located in chancel of church (LH018-014001-). (Davies and Tempest 1943, 204-5)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 4 July 2012
References
Davies, O. and Tempest, H. G. 1943 Old Churches in County Louth. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 10 (3), 200-215.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.