Tullow / An Tulach

Pike (1989) reports a plain font in the churchyard at the church of St Columba in Tullow. The entry for this church in Carlow Tourism [http://trails.carlowtourism.com/st-columba's-church-of-ireland-church.html] [accessed 25 April 2023] notes: "Tullow was a location of ecclesiastical importance from at least the late fifth century when a monastery was founded by St. Fortiarnán (Fortchern). No traces of this remain although the large granite cross base and font in the churchyard of the present St. Columba’s Church of Ireland church may have been associated with the early monastery. In the fourteenth century an Augustinian Friary was founded on the south side of the River Slaney but again there are no substantial remains."