Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Staffordstown (skreen By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Staffordstown (skreen By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62774, -6.57809
- SMR number
- ME032-001002-
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 font that was kept in the graveyard (ME032-001001-) was moved c. 1975 to the Roman Catholic church at Walterstown, c. 2.5km to the SE, where it is displayed in the S porch. It is a cubic piece of white limestone (dims 0.62m x 0.62m; max. H 0.56m) that has chamfered corners and a circular, flat-bottomed basin (int. diam. 0.5m; max. D 0.32m). The rim is wave-like and the form morphs to circular (diam. 0.4m) at the bottom so that the large panels are D-shaped (max. H 0.37m) hanging from the rim. (Roe 1968, 127-8)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 January, 2015
References
Roe, H.M. 1968 Medieval fonts of Meath. Meath Archaeological and Historical Society.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.