Kilkenny No. 3 / Cill Chainnigh

Baptismal fonty noted in Carrigan (1905): "baptismal font removed from St. Kieran's Well to St. Francis' Abbey". Described and illustrated in Pike (1989: 19): medieval limestone font of the Ossory group; it "was found in the old Church in Kitler's Inn [...] now preserved in the Franciscan Friary [...] there is no certainty that this is where it came from originally". The font consists of a square basin decorated "with flutes in Romanesque pairs. Fleur-de-Lis in relief on surface" [i.e., probably on the spandrels of the upper surface, like those on the font at St. Canice's and St. Laserian's [cf. Index entry for Kilkenny No. 2 and Old Leighlin No.1 respectively]. This object is indexed in the Archaeological Survey of Ireland under SMR No. KK019-026150-.
A digital image of an old [ca. 1905?] photograph of this baptismal font is posted in Wikipedia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carrigan_Kieran's_font.png] [accessed 27 July 2025]: "The caption in Carrigan's book says "baptismal font removed from St. Kieran's Well to St. Francis' Abbey". Saint Kieran's Well was where the beer garden at Kyteler's is now."
A view of the original Kieran's Well in context may be found in a digital image of an old photograph in Carrigan (1905) posted in Wikipedia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carrigan_Kieran's_Well.png] [accessed 27 July 2025] captioned: "A photograph of an old photograph in Carrigan's History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory. It shows St Kieran's Well as it was in what is now the beer garden of Kyteler's Inn in Kieran Street. It was covered up, when the beer garden was built."
The actual present location of the former well, now inside Kyeteler's Inn, can be found in Wikipedia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Saint_Kieran's_Well,_Kilkenny] [accessed 27 July 2025]: "location of the former holy well in today's beer garden area of Kyteler's Inn. This was the original ground floor level of the house and Kieran Street".