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Kilcoole, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Font, Kilcoole, County Wicklow, 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
Kilcoole
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins), Graveyard
Coordinates
53.10709, -6.06281
SMR number
WI013-029003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A square granite font (0.75m x 0.72m; D 0.48m) with rounded corners and a central basin (diam. 0.53m; D 0.28m) which contains a central drain-hole. Located immediately inside the door of the nave of the church (WI013-029001-) when inspected in 1990. (SMR file)

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 07 February 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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