Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Cortown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cortown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68623, -6.86076
- SMR number
- ME024-001003-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Two flat-rimmed, octagonal fonts are located in the parish church of Balrathboyne (ME024-001----). That in the NW angle of the nave is limestone (dims 0.56m x 0.52m; H 0.23m) with a circular, dished basin (diam. 0.42m; max. D 0.17m) and chamfered under-panels.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 June, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.