Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone sculpture (present location)
Johnstown (skreen By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Johnstown (skreen By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63611, -6.64825
- SMR number
- ME025-041002-
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
A pier (Wth 0.32m; H 0.83m) from the cloister arcade at Bective abbey (ME031-026----) is displayed on the outside of the church tower at Johnstown Roman Catholic church on the S side. It is decorated with an image of a bishop. The font from Follistown (ME025-041001-) is nearby, and the decorated font from Kilcarn (ME031-003002-) is inside the church. (Stalley 1987, 194, Fig. 220)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 January, 2015
References
Stalley, R. 1987 The Cistercian monasteries of Ireland. London and New Haven. Yale University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.