Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font (present location)
Ballynabinnia, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynabinnia
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.86758, -9.07834
- SMR number
- CL033-139003-
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
Situated outside the W door of St. Joseph’s RC church in Kilnamona (Ballynabinnia Td.). The bowl (H 0.4m) of an irregularly carved font removed c. 1932 from a medieval church (CL033-006005-) in Kilnamona Td. some 250m to SW (http://historyofkilnamona.org/church.html. Accessed 22 January 2020). The bowl is oval in plan (max. ext. diam. 0.7m; int. dims. 0.55m x 0.53m) with rounded protrusions (D 0.69m) on the exterior forming four ‘corners’. The interior slopes inward towards the base which is sand-filled to support a modern ceramic bowl of holy water. Beneath the external corner protrusions (H 0.17m) the font tapers in towards the shaft. There are no visible carvings on the exterior. It is of limestone with much lichen and sits on a modern concrete shaft and base. A trickle of water flows from a crack in the N face.
The following images have been uploaded:
1. CL033-139003-_01.jpg Font from W.
2. CL033-139003-_02.jpg Font from E.
3. CL033-139003-_03.jpg Font from N showing crack on the side.
4. CL033-139003-_04.jpg Font interior.
5. CL033-139003-_05.jpg Interior of font with modern bowl.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.