Culmullen / Culmullin
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Scene Description: View of the font ca. 2000
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09221CUL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Meath / An Mhí, Leinster
Directions to Site: Located on the Dublin to Trim road
Font Location in Church: Reported in the graveyard ca. 1968 -- Last seen [ca. 2000] somwhere inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Cogan (1992 c1862, vol. II: 351): "The font is oval, measuring one foot six inches internally, by one foot three and a-half inches; it consists of six compartments, and has an aperture. The bowl and pedestal are all one stone, and measure in height one foot eleven inches".
Described in Roe (1968: 112-113) as a medieval baptismal font of "very unusual form with eight sides, two of which are wide, two medium and four narrow making an oval outline", thus forming the basin, which overhangs the lower panels that "seem vertical and not chamfered. The basin [i.e., the inside well] is oval and flat-bottomed with a central drain". The font "is on the ground, close to the pathway through the graveyard. It is deeply overgrown and in part enbedded in the earth." Roe (ibid.) refers to Cogan [cf. Author Notes below], who had described the basin well as being divided into six compartments internally, a description in disagreement with what Roe found at the time of her visit. Roe's illustration of ca. 1968 shows the upper rim badly broken and/or eroded, and the basin covered in lichens, but the Culmullen Parish site [www.culmulleparish.ie] shows [ca. 2000?] the font with the lower base portion visible in what appears to be an enclosed area of the building.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 6.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 44.5 x 35 [oval]
Diameter (includes rim): 57.5 x 48 cm [calculated]
Basin Depth: 20 cm
Height of Basin Side: between 21 and 24.7 cm
Basin Total Height: 57.12 cm [at the highest -- calculated]
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 17.8 x 22.9; 29.3 x 22.9; 19.7 x 22.9; 21.7 x 24.7; 17.8 x 23.5; 29.3 x 22.9; 17.8 x 22.9; 24.3 x 21 cm [width x height]
Basin Lower Panel Dimensions: 15.3 x 32.5; 24.7 x 32.5; 17.8 x 32.5; 20.2 x 32.5 cm [width x height]
Notes on Measurements: Roe (1968: 112-113)
REFERENCES
Cogan, Anthony, The Diocese of Meath: Ancient and Modern, Kill Lane, Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1992 (c1862)
Roe, Helen M., Medieval Fonts of Meath, Longford, Ireland: Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 1968