Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Moloughabbey, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moloughabbey
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.27969, -7.80062
- SMR number
- TS088-031001-
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)
- 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
The sandstone base of a font, with a perforated centre, lies E of the doorway of Molough Abbey (TS088-031001-) in the S wall of the church. It is octagonal in shape, 0.22m high, the base is 0.56m in width and the top is 0.31m in width. A circular shaft with a hollow centre rested on this base.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian nunsunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.