Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Mollaneen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mollaneen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.90907, -9.06842
- SMR number
- CL025-091008-
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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
The record is for the original location of a font. Swinfen (1992, 23) notes ‘About 1855 the bowl of a font was observed in the churchyard; it was square and ornamented with a moulding round the lip and also where it joined the shaft, though the shaft was missing. It was said to be of medieval type. There has been no sign of it for many years.’ The present location of the font is unknown.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 27 September 2017
References
Swinfen, A. 1992 Forgotten stones: Ancient church sites of the Burren and environs. Dublin. Lilliput Press.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.