Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Oughtmama, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughtmama
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11684, -9.03869
- SMR number
- CL003-032014-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the SW corner of Oughtmama church (CL003-032002-). A rectangular font on the ground beneath a carved stoup. A drawing of this font by A. Korff (Swan 1991, 108) shows a central drain hole. A photograph in 1992 shows the font partially buried (Swinfen 1992, 103).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 February 2018
References
Swan, D.L. 1991 The churches, monasteries and burial grounds of the Burren. In J. W. O'Connell and A. Korff (eds.), The book of the Burren, 95-118. Tír Eolas, Newtownlynch, Kinvara, Co. Galway.
Swinfen, A. 1992 Forgotten stones: Ancient church sites of the Burren and environs. Dublin. Lilliput Press.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.