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Font

Freshford Lots, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Font, Freshford Lots, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Freshford Lots
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.73104, -7.39772
SMR number
KK013-023008-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Within the RC church in Freshford, left of the altar where it is in use as a baptismal font . The original location of this font is unknown, it may have come from St Lachtain's church (KK013-023001-), currently the C of I church c. 165m to the N.
A square limestone font (total H 0.41m; H above base chamfer 0.33m; Wth 0.65-0.66m), the lower edge of each side is chamfered (D of chamfer 0.1m). The four angles of the font are also chamfered, each terminating with a broach stop above the base chamfer. It currently rests on a modern pedestal. It is decorated with arcades, the N and E sides with seven round-headed arches, the S side with seven pointed arches and the W side with five ogee-headed arches with spandrels. The columns dividing the arches on the S and W sides continue onto the base chamfer where they taper to a point. The raised surrounds of the arch are polished while the intervening spaces and the base chamfer are dressed with punch tooling. The basin of the font is circular (diam. 0.535m; D 0.22m) and the central drain hole has been filled in. There are the remains of three circular hinges on the N side of the top for a former cover. It probably dates to the 15th century. Pike (1989, 572-82; 597-9) includes this in an 'Ossory Group' of fonts.

See attached photographs:
KK013-023008-_01 N and W sides viewed from the NW
KK013-023008-_02 N side
KK013-023008-_03 S side
KK013-023008-_04 E side
KK013-023008-_05 Overview of top of font with scale, from S side

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 22 August 2022

References

Pike, H.K.J. 1989 Medieval fonts. Old Kilkenny Review 4, no. 1, 572-82, 597-8.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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