Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font (present location)
Town Parks (kells Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Town Parks (kells Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72767, -6.87992
- SMR number
- ME017-044041-
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 fragment of a font from Martry church (ME017-037----) is now in St. Columba’s church in Kells. It consists of the lower part of the basin (diam. c. 0.39m) of an octagonal font with ribs at the angles, and an angel’s head and wings on the lower panel. (Roe 1968, 68-9; Bradely and King 1985, 82)
References
Roe, H.M. 1968 Medieval fonts of Meath. Meath Archaeological and Historical Society.
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1985 Urban archaeological survey - county Meath. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.