Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Churchtown, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchtown
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.35445, -7.50885
- SMR number
- WA003-001007-
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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
Situated on the S bank of the River Suir. There is a fragment of an octagonal font with a circular basin (int. diam. 0.3m) in the graveyard (WA003-001002-) of Dysert church (WA003-001001). (Power 1896b, 6-8)
Power, Rev. P. (1896b) The ancient ruined churches of Waterford. WAJ. 2, 2-15, 195-298.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 06 March 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.