Dunnamaggin / Dunamaggan / Dunnamaggan
Image copyright © Joan Pike, 1989
Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
Scene Description: Fleur-de-lis motif in the fluting of the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joan Pike, 1989
Image Source: Pike (1989: 21)
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)
B02: design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: "7 Gothic flutes on each side"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joan Pike, 1989
Image Source: Pike (1989: 21)
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joan Pike, 1989
Image Source: Pike (1989: 21)
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)
INFORMATION
FontID: 00870DUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Leonard (R.C.) [originally from the medieval church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: New Line, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Kilkenny, Leinster
Directions to Site: Dunnamaggin / Dunamaggan is 3.5 miles south of Kells on the R697 to Kilmaganny.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ossory
Font Location in Church: Reported inside the 19th-century church ca. 1989
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ossory font
Cognate Fonts: 1. St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny
2. St Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow
3. St Francis' Abbey, Kilkenny
4. St Patrick's Memorial Church, Saul, co. Down
5. Ballyhale, 1st Stoup outside the Roman Catholic Church
6. Outside Freshford Roman Catholic Church
7. St Mary's Church, Kilkenny
8. St Mary and St Catherine, Callan
9.Maddoxtowm Churchyard, Kilkenny
10. St Mary's Churchyard, Thomastown (fragments)
11.Ballyhale 2nd Stoup outside Roman Catholic Church
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].
Font Notes:
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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. [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].
COORDINATES
UTM: 29U 615525 5818305
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: five
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: [now blocked]
Height of Basin Side: 49.53 cm
Basin Total Height: 49.53 cm
Height of Base: 48.26 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 97.79 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 72.39 x 72.39 cm
Notes on Measurements: Pike (1989: 21)
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