Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Pass of Kilbride, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pass of Kilbride
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44578, -7.22675
- SMR number
- WM034-002004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight natural rise of ground in undulating countryside with good views in all directions. Located 180m E of the Pass of Kilbride. Church (WM034-002001-) in centre of graveyard (WM034-002003-) with St. Bridget’s Well (WM034-001----) 70m to the N and motte castle (WM034-003----) 90m to the SSE. A defaced square-shaped font (H 0.75m; Wth 0.53m) with inverted pyramidal shaped-base carved from a single piece of stone has been cemented into the surface of the graveyard (WM034-002003-) presumably at the same time as the church walls were rebuilt in 1991. The font with circular flat-bottomed bowl (D 0.2m; base diam. 0.41m) is located a few metres SE of the gap located in the S wall of the church.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 29 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.