Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font (present location)
Oldleighlin, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldleighlin
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73606, -7.02560
- SMR number
- CW011-016006-
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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 13th-century font of Kilkenny limestone located inside the S entrance door of the cathedral's nave (CW011-016005-) (Bradley 1989, 47). It has a large square bowl decorated with rounded arcades resting on a large, possibly modern, drum shaped base (ibid.). According to Pike (1989, 574) this font, described as 'decorated with heavy Romanesque flutes, ten on each side, Fleur-de-lis decoration on the top surface', was moved here from St Mary's Church (KK020-060006-), Gowran, Co. Kilkenny (where the font is recorded as KK020-060070-).
Compiled by: Claire Breen and Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 22 August 2018
References
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1990 Urban archaeological survey - county Carlow. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Pike, H.K.J. 1989 Medieval fonts. Old Kilkenny Review 4, no. 1, 572-82, 597-8.
Nearby in the register
- Cathedralunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.