Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Gernonstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gernonstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71938, -6.59286
- SMR number
- ME019-006002-
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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 subcircular sandstone font (diam. 0.63-0.7m; max. surviving H 0.46m) with a circular basin (int. diam. 0.5m; max. surviving D 0.16m) was recorded in Gernonstown church (ME019-006----) (Cogan 1862-70, 2, 303), but it became deeply embedded in the ground (Roe 1968, 119) of the rectangular graveyard (ME019-006001-). It is now outside the Roman Catholic church at Rushee (ME019-118----), c. 1km to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 December, 2014
References
Cogan, Rev. A. 1862-70 Ecclesiastical history of the diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. (3 vols) Dublin: John Fowler, Joseph Dollard
Roe, H.M. 1968 Medieval fonts of Meath. Meath Archaeological and Historical Society.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.