TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Font

Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Font, Gowran, 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
Gowran
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.62892, -7.06510
SMR number
KK020-060070-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

A 13th-century font (see CW011-016006-) of Kilkenny limestone currently located inside the S entrance door of the nave of the Cathedral of St Laserian (CW011-016005-), Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow. It has a large square bowl decorated with rounded arcades resting on a large, possibly modern, drum shaped base. 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 to the cathedral from St Mary's Church (KK020-060006-) in Gowran.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 24 March 2021

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Font in Kilkenny All County Kilkenny records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map