Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Slanecastle Demesne, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slanecastle Demesne
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71716, -6.54323
- SMR number
- ME019-060017-
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
The limestone octagonal font (ext. dim. 0.74m; H 0.35m) with a circular straight-sided basin (diam. 0.53m; D 0.2m) and chamfered under-panels from the parish church of Slane is now at the W end of the Roman Catholic church in the village (ME019-025----). A cross (H 4cm) incised on one panel and the date 1717 lightly incised on another are secondary. (Roe 1968, 127)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 July, 2014
References
Roe, H.M. 1968 Medieval fonts of Meath. Meath Archaeological and Historical Society.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.