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Font (present location)

Dunnamaggan West, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Font (present location), Dunnamaggan West, 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
Dunnamaggan West
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.50224, -7.29907
SMR number
KK031-002----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

The original font (see KK031-002010-) in the medieval parish church (KK031-003002-) of Dunnamaggan was moved initially to the RC chapel in Dunnamaggan where it was used as a holy water stoup (Carrigan 1905, vol. 4, 34). The RC chapel was built in c. 1790 and remodeled in c. 1828 (ibid. 83). Following the demolition of this chapel, the font was re-housed in the current RC church in Dunnamaggan which was built in 1971. 

A square font of carboniferous limestone (dims. 0.72m x 0.72m; H 0.54m) with a circular bowl (diam. 0.51m; D 0.3m). The central drain-hole (diam. 0.09m) has been blocked. It is decorated with pointed arcading, with two flutes per arch. The angles are chamfered. The underside of the font has a circular moulding (diam. 0.43m), formerly receiving a central round pier with four smaller circular columns supporting the angles, the latter have been replaced by modern columns. It is similar in style to other ‘Ossory’ fonts which have been dated to the 13th century.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Nearby in the register

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

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