Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural feature
Clonamery, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonamery
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46694, -7.03182
- SMR number
- KK033-021007-
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
This was classified in the SMR (1987) and the RMP (1996) as an 'Font', however, this is actually a stoup which is a receptacle for holy water, originally positioned immediately inside the entrance doorway on one or other side. Described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 120) as, 'a granite holy water font, with rectangular cavity 9 in. by 8 in. and 2½ in. deep'. Associated with Clonamery church (KK033-021001-), it is not incorporated in the walling of the church. It is currently located 0.3m outside the church, close to the N jamb of the W doorway. It consists of a roughly dressed sub-rectangular granite boulder (dims. 0.39m x 0.37m; H 0.28m) with a carved rectangular basin (dims. 0.23m x 0.2m; D 0.07m) which splays in towards the base (dims. 0.13m x 0.12m).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 19 October 2016
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.