Clonmel No. 2 / Cluain Meala

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Results: 5 records

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B01: animal - mammal - ram - head - 2?

Image Source: Pike (1989: 29)

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B02: design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: Pike (1989: 29)

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

LB01: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Scene Description: [NB: may not be related to the basin]

Image Source: Pike (1989: 29)

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

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Scene Description: [NB: may not be related to the basin]

Image Source: Pike (1989: 29)

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

view of stoup

Image Source: Pike (1989: 29)

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 02728CLO

Church/Chapel: [former] Franciscan Friary (Roman Catholic) [closed January 2023]

Church Location: Burgagery-Lands West, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Tipperary, Munster

Directions to Site: Clonmel is about 35 miles W of Waterford on the N24.

Font Location in Church: Appears to be wall-mounted

Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful 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: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Pike (1989: 28-29): together with the two parts of fonts listed in this Index under Clonmel No. 1, Pike reports two other objects: 1)a wall-mounted roughly cylindrical holy-water stoup without a drain; its sides are heavily carved in high relief with ram heads on the corners and leaf decoration between them. 2)a pedestal, quite possibly un-related to this stoup, has "linear design in low relief of the Madonna and Child". [We are grateful 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]. [cf. Index entry for Clonmel No. 3 for a plain stoup, perhaps medieval]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.352633, -7.700279

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 21′ 9.48″ N, 7° 42′ 1″ W

UTM: 29U 588522 5801055

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cylindrical

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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