Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Goldenfort, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Goldenfort
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.98084, -6.70687
- SMR number
- WI021-042002-
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5 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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
Within a burial ground (WI021-042001-) on level ground overlooking a gentle W-facing slope. An octagonal, granite font base (max. Wth 0.32m; T 0.2m) with a central circular hole. The font is broken at one side but otherwise well preserved. Two chisel-cut slots (D 0.02-0.03m) remain on the upper flat side of the font, there may have been others on the broken part.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 5 December 2012
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 122/1940).
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.