Blackchurch / Black Church / Duv Regles / Meadstown / Clonmaduff? / Clonmacduff?

INFORMATION

FontID: 02751BLA
Church/Chapel: [unknown]
Church Location: Meadstown, Co. Meath, Ireland
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Meath / An Mhí, Leinster
Directions to Site: Located about 2 km WNW of Dunderry, NW of Navan
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Meath]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Roe suggests that, based on the remains, it probably looked like the font at Killeen
Church Notes: original church here may have existed prior to the Anglo-Norman settlement
Roe (1968: 110) reports that Dr. Beryl Moore had visited the site "some years ago" and found an octagonal pedestal and base, which she reckons would have been similar to the ones of the Killeen font. By the time of Roe's own visit to the same site in 1963, all that remained was the lower part of the base. [NB: the site appears to have included a cemetery used later by Franciscans as their burial grounds; the church here was listed in the taxatio of Pope Nicolas IV (1302-1306); the church and chancel of Clonmaduff were already reported to be in ruins in the early 17th century [http://www.meathheritage.com/index.php/archives/item/me01338-meadstown-church] [accessed 7 February 2020]; also in Cogan's Ecclesiastical History of the Diocese of Meath (1862 and 1874)].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: [fragment]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal? [missing]

REFERENCES

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