Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Rathcore, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcore
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45194, -6.84366
- SMR number
- ME048-002002-
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
The plain octagonal font (ext. dims 0.58m; H 0.42m) with a circular basin (int. diam. D 0.2m) and chamfered under-panels which is described by Roe (1968, 126) as being in the graveyard associated with the site of the medieval parish church (ME048-002----) is now kept in the porch of the Church of Ireland church of Rathcore.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 April, 2015
References
Roe, H.M. 1968 Medieval fonts of Meath. Meath Archaeological and Historical Society.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.