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Font

Kilcash, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Font, Kilcash, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilcash
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.39715, -7.52347
SMR number
TS078-036002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In the 19th-century RC church in the village of Kilcash there is 'a rudely carved font' (TS078-072----) (Killanin & Duignan 1967, 145) which according to local tradition was taken from the church at Kilcash (TS078-036001-). The I.T.A. Survey of 1942 records it as an ancient holy water stoup, on which is sculptured a representation of Our Lords Baptism. It consists of a large octagonal limestone basin (int. Wth 0.7m; int. D 0.21m; total D 0.44m) with large central drain hole. An incised horizontal line with rough vertical tooling forms a border around the outer rim. The font itself is dressed with lightly incised horizontal tooling. The base of the font has an octagonal moulding and the font rests on a square base (H 0.43m) with chamfered angles.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury Press.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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