Dunnamaggin / Dunamaggan / Dunnamaggan

Described and illustrated in Pike (1989: 21): the font, a square mounted piece of the Ossory type, "is said to have been taken from an ancient ruined Medieval Church in the village", and is now [i.e., ca. 1989] in use in the 19th-century R.C. church of St. Leonard. Pike (ibid.) describes the font as being decorated with "7 Gothic flutes on each side. A type of Fleur-de-lis is in the centre of each flute, with a bevelled flute in each corner"; made of limestone and with the central drain blocked, it stands on four slender colonnettes, without a plinth.
A set of digital photograph taken 27 November 2024 by A.-K. D. may be seen in Wikipedia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dunnamaggin_baptismal_font] [accessed 23 July 2025]; the four colonnottes of the base, which appear new of re-tooled, rest directly on the ground, without a lower base or plinth. There is no cover on it. The 'fluted" pattern show as an arcade of very narrow pointed arches pointed arches; in that respect it differs from Kilkenny's St Candice's. No cover present. The photograph of the font above is captioned: "The Dunnamaggan baptismal font is of the Ossory type and is made of Kilkenny limestone. There are similar baptismal fonts to be found in St. Canice's Cathedral and Maddoxtown graveyard. It probably once stood in the church ruin, was then built into the old RC church which was demolished in the late 20th century and has now found its new home in the new RC church." The same author -A.K.-D.- has a photograph taken outside, in the churchyard, under the title "Dunnamaggin baptismal font base" [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunnamaggin_baptismal_font_base.jpg ] [accessed 23 July 2025] and captioned: "Base of a baptismal font in the churchyard in Dunnamaggin, marking the location of the demolished church. A font of that shape can also be found in the RC church in Owning where a basin is still resting on it." The shape of this lower base does not seem to correspond to the font inside the new church now, and the object on it does not look like a font, either, its basin too shallow for a normal basin; was it a stoup or a piscina?
A further set of digital photographs also by A.-K. D. are grouped in Wikipedia under the heading of "Collection of architectural objects at Brady's Castle"; one of them is captioned as "A D shaped vessel, possibly once a holy water stoup from Dunnamaggin. It is now in the private ownership at Brady's Castle in Thomastown. It is a recorded monument as an "architectural fragment", and all four of them are described as being originally from Dunnamaggin.
A 3-D model of this font made by b-unicycling may be seen in Sketchfab [https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/dunnamaggin-baptismal-font-04019b0e02af42679661cdfe7ac81a8f] [accessed 23 July 2025]; caption reads: "A baptismal font of the so called Ossory type, more sopisticated on the sides than the one at St. Canice’s but lacking the decoration on the top. As usual, I could not find the light switches in the church, so some sides came out better than others."