Killaloe

Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)

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B01: design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2003 by Andreas F. Borchert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Killaloe_Saint_Flannans_Cathedral_Baptismal_Font_2003_09_05.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2009]

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B02: symbol - cross

Scene Description: on the only carved side of the font

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view of basin

Image Source: Westropp (1893: 197)

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view of basin

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view of church exterior - portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanesque doorway in Killaloe Cathedral, Co. Clare, Ireland"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 May 2010 by JohnArmagh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KillaloeCathedralRomanesqueDoorway.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "County Clare, Killaloe Cathedral."

Image Source: digital photograph 16 August 2021 by Jonjobaker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:County_Clare_-_Killaloe_Cathedral_-_20210816143649.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2023]

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view of church interior - cross

Scene Description: Source caption: "High Cross in Killaloe Cathedral, Co. Clare, Ireland"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 May 2010 by JohnArmagh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KillaloeCathedralHighCross.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2023]

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view of church interior - nave - south doorway

Image Source: JRSAI (1892: 408)

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view of church interior - nave - south doorway - detail

Image Source: JRSAI (1892: 408)

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: Westropp (1893: 197)

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view of church interior - stone

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Killaloe Stone, also called Shantraud Ogham-Runic Stone (CIIC 54), in the St Flannan's Cathedral in Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland has both an Ogham and a runic inscription. In the picture the front view with runes of the Younger Futhark."

Image Source: digital photograph 4 September 2017 by Oliver Dixon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Killaloe_Stone_with_Ogham_and_runic_inscriptiion_-_Killaloe-Stein_mit_Ogham-_und_Runeninschrift.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2023]

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view of church interior - stone - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "This is a very rare and historical stone,for it has inscriptions in both Ogham and Runic and can be found in the cathedral in Killaloe, County Clare. It is the only known example in the world of a bi-lingual stone with inscription in both the Irish ogham and Scandinavain runic. Both inscriptions refer to the same person so it can be assumed that this person was an actual historical figure. The ogham inscription reads as "BEANDACHT (AR) - TOROQR ( IM ), this translates as 'a blessing upon Thorgrim' while the runic reads as "URGRIM RISTI KRUS INA"which translates as 'Thorgrim carved this stone'. It is 0.89m in height, 0.46m in width and 0.20m in depth."

Image Source: digital image of a drawing reproduced in Megalithic Ireland [http://www.megalithicmonumentsofireland.com/COUNTIES/CLARE/Shantraud_Ogham-RunicStone.html] [accessed 27 April 2023]

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view of font

Image Source: Pike (1989: 26)

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00839KIL

Church/Chapel: Cathedral Church of St. Flannan (Church of Ireland)

Church Patron Saints: St. Flannan

Church Location: Royal Parade, Shantraud, Killaloe, Co. Clare, V94 FD36, Ireland -- Tel.: +353 61 622 147

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Clare, Munster

Directions to Site: Located off the R463-R494 crossroads, N of the M7, about 25 km SW of Nenagh

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe

Font Location in Church: Reported ca. 1893 at the NW corner of the chancel; ca. 1989 in the chapel of St. Paul, S transept

Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Rachel Moss, and to Trinity College, Dublin, for the copy of Ms. Pike's work, and to Ms. Joan Pike for her kind permission to reproduce her original drawings.

Church Notes: 12thC church; restored 2001

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Parliamentary Gazetter of Ireland for 1845. in a section that provides a general description of the town of Killaloe, informs: "The north transept [of the Cathedral of St. Flannan] has been converted into a school-house, under the stair in which lay, thrown from its pedestal, the old floridly ornamented font." [source: Courtesy of the Clare Local Studies Project, in the Clare Library web site: www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/killaloe1845.htm]. Described and illustrated in Westropp (1893: 198 and pl. on p. 195): "A curious old font of yellow sandstone stands at the north-west corner of the chancel. On one face are finished carvings of a cross and conventional sprays of foliage. It was intended to rest on four pillars. Some attribute its incomplete condition to the discovery, during the carving, of a now very manifest flaw [...]". The font is described and illustrated in Pike (1989: 26-27): "The Cathedral has a granite Medieval font with square bowl mounted on a round pedestal of later date of darker granite. The central drain is blocked. It has a design one face only. It is not in use. It stands in the Chapel of St. Paul in the South Transept". [We are grateful to Dr. Rachel Moss, and to Trinity College, Dublin, for the copy of Ms. Pike's work, and to Ms. Joan Pike for her kind permission to reproduce her original drawings]. An octagonal object resembling a medieval font or, more likely, s holy-water stoup, appears in a ca. 1892 photograph to the left of the south doorway [cf. Image area: photograph and detail]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.80625, -8.439056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 48′ 22.5″ N, 8° 26′ 20.6″ W

UTM: 29U 537813 5850865

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone [a/p Westropp] -- granite [a/p Pike]

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Height of Basin Side: 35.56 cm

Basin Total Height: 35.56 cm Width is 57.15 x 54.61 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 104.14 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 57.15 x 54.6 cm

Notes on Measurements: Pike (1989: 27)

REFERENCES

Pike, Joan H.K., "Medieval Fonts of Ireland", [Supplied courtesy of The Dept. of the History of Art, Trinity College, Dublin], [Ireland]: [Privately printed], 1989

Westropp, Thomas Johnson, "Killaloe: its Anciente Palaces and Cathedral, part II", 23, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1893, pp. 187-201; r["References"]