Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Great Island, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Great Island
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.29644, -6.99335
- SMR number
- WX039-018009-
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
A small circular basin from font that is made of a conglomerate stone (ext. diam. 0.75m; int. diam. 0.48m; H 0.48m; D 0.23m) is within the graveyard (WX039-018006-) of Killmokea church (WX039-018002-). About half of the rectangular conglomerate base (dims 0.66m x 0.4m; H 0.15m) with a circular recess on one surface for the stem is on top of the graveyard wall at N.
See the attached view of the font-base
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 January, 2013
Amended: 21 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.