Ballinlough Castle

INFORMATION

FontID: 02746BAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: [Not in a church -- original location unknown]

Church Location: Ballinlough, Crowenstown Little, Co. Westmeath, Ireland

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Meath / An Mhí, Leinster

Directions to Site: Follow the N3 from Kells to Carnaross (3-4 miles); at Carnaross take the left road towards Crossakeel and, about a mile before Crossakeel make a right to Ballinlough.

Font Location in Church: Located ca. 1968 in the castle garden

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

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in Roe (1968: 109) as a font "well-made octagonal, flat-bottomed", of unknown provenance, located in the castle garden

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.634, -7.026

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 38′ 2.4″ N, 7° 1′ 33.6″ W

UTM: 29U 630519 5944612

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 8.3 cm (Roe)

Diameter (inside rim): 45 cm (Roe)

Basin Depth: 15.3 cm (Roe)

Height of Basin Side: 23 cm (Roe)

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 23 x 30 cm (Roe)

Notes on Measurements: Roe (1968: 109)

REFERENCES

Roe, Helen M., Medieval Fonts of Meath, Longford, Ireland: Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 1968