Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Bective, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bective
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59189, -6.70223
- SMR number
- ME031-019003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A font described by Wilde (1850, 95-6) as being a plain octagon 'two feet five inches in diameter (c. 0.7m)' in the graveyard just N of Clady church (ME031-019----) is probably the font now in the Roman Catholic church in Robinstown (ME031-070----) c. 1.7km to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 January, 2015
References
Wilde, W. 1850 The beauties of the Boyne and its tributary, the Blackwater (2nd ed). Dublin. McGlashan.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.