Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font (present location)
Dunnamaggan West, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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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
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formerly receiving a central round pier with four smaller circular columns supporting the angles, the latter have been replaced by modern columns.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
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.