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Font (present location)

Toor (Kilcash Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Font (present location), Toor (Kilcash Par.), 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
Toor (Kilcash Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.40391, -7.53960
SMR number
TS078-072----

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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

According to local tradition this font was moved from the medieval church at Kilcash (TS078-036002-) and is now at the rear of Kilcash 19th-century R.C. church on S side of porch. 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. A large octagonal limestone font (dims. 0.7m x 0.7m; int.D 0.21m; ext. D 0.44m) with a central hole (diam. 0.09m), a worn polished surface. An incised horizontal line forms a border around the top with rough vertical drafting while the font itself has lightly incised horizontal drafting. The base of the font has octagonal moulding and it rests on a square base (Dims. 0.33m x 0.34m; H 0.43m) with chamfered angles.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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