Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcorney
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04126, -9.15676
- SMR number
- CL009-028004-
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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
Located within the ruins of a medieval church (CL009-028002-), this rectangular font (L 0.66m; Wth 0.6m; H 0.39m) is set on a flat-topped stone (L 0.51m; Wth 0.51m; visible H 0.06m) protruding from the ground. Swinfen (1992, 36) described it as ‘a plain, late font, cut from a single stone’. The top of the rim is flat. In profile the upper sides (H 0.09m; T 0.08m) are vertical, under which they slope inward, before returning vertical in the lower portion (H 0.08m). Due to the inward slope of the sides, the base of the font is smaller in area (L 0.24m; Wth 0.24m) than the top. On the interior (L 0.57m; Wth c. 0.52m) the upper sides also have a vertical upper section, beneath which they slope down to a central aperture (diam. 0.1m) in the base.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-028004- font.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 17 December 2021
References
Swinfen, A. 1992 Forgotten stones: Ancient church sites of the Burren and environs. Dublin. Lilliput Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.