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Font (present location)

Commons, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Font (present location), Commons, 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
Commons
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.99360, -6.08146
SMR number
WI025-088001-

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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

The font is currently held in St Joseph's Church in Rathnew village. A nearby graveyard (WI025-010003-) contains a ruined church (WI025-010001-), and a font (WI025-010002-). A roughly shaped, rectangular granite block (dims. L 0.5m; Wth 0.43m; H 0.32m high) contains a finely carved, smooth, steep-sided, almost circular basin (diams. 0.30m; 0.27m; D 0.13m.). Record no. WI025-088002- was created for the unknown 'Original location' of this font.

Date of upload: 30 October 2012

Nearby in the register

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

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