Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Kilcash, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcash
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39715, -7.52347
- SMR number
- TS078-036002-
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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
In the 19th-century RC church in the village of Kilcash there is 'a rudely carved font' (TS078-072----) (Killanin & Duignan 1967, 145) which according to local tradition was taken from the church at Kilcash (TS078-036001-). The I.T.A. Survey of 1942 records it as an ancient holy water stoup, on which is sculptured a representation of Our Lords Baptism. It consists of a large octagonal limestone basin (int. Wth 0.7m; int. D 0.21m; total D 0.44m) with large central drain hole. An incised horizontal line with rough vertical tooling forms a border around the outer rim. The font itself is dressed with lightly incised horizontal tooling. The base of the font has an octagonal moulding and the font rests on a square base (H 0.43m) with chamfered angles.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.