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Painestown (duleek Lower By., Painestown Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Painestown (duleek Lower By., Painestown Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68028, -6.57073
- SMR number
- ME026-002003-
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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
Part of an octagonal sandstone font (H 0.34m) consisting of the base of the bowl (diam. 0.39m; max. surviving D 0.1m) and the chamfered under-panels with a large cylindrical mortise (diam. 2m; D 0.2m) underneath to take the shaft is in the graveyard of Painestown parish church (ME026-002----).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 July, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.