Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Churchpark, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchpark
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74841, -8.80685
- SMR number
- MA103-002004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Deeply embedded in a small roughly oval, flat-topped earth and stone rise (5m NE−SW; 3.7m NW−SE; H 0.35m) on level ground 30m N of a graveyard (MA103-002002-) which encloses a church (MA103-002001-).
A large stone block (max. dim. c. 0.8m) with a central circular depression (diam. 38m; D 0.16m) in its upper surface. A narrow shallow dip or break (0.09m) extends from one edge of the stone to the central hollow. The stone is sunk in the ground, with its top flush with surrounding ground level, and it is not possible to determine its full size.
It is named ‘St. Patrick’s Font’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map, and according to local tradition, water in the central hollow was used as a cure for warts.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.