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Font

Kilcoolyabbey, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Font, Kilcoolyabbey, County Tipperary South, 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
Kilcoolyabbey
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.67085, -7.57125
SMR number
TS043-034010-

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Placed up against the S wall of the SE chapel of the N transept of Kilcooly Abbey (TS043-034001-). This square limestone font (0.56m x 0.52m; H 0.29m) has a straight-sided, flat-bottomed, circular base (diam. 0.46m; D 0.2m) with a central drainage hole (diam. 0.04m). The visible external faces of the font are decorated in relief consisting of eight round-headed flutes on the E face, Gothic tracery of ribbed vault patterns with three round-headed flutes and a twisted column on the N face and Gothic tracery of ribbed vault patterns on the W face. The pedestal on which the font stands is reconstructed and consists of a chamfered double-column base with broach stops from the cloister arcade (0.37m x 0.28m; H 0.19m) resting on a tapering limestone column (H 0.56m; diam. at top 0.14m; diam. at base 0.2m). (Pike 1989, 578-9).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/2010).

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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