Clondalkin

INFORMATION

FontID: 09244CLO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [from an earlier church?]
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Dublin, Leinster
Directions to Site: Located to the W of Ballyfermot
Font Location in Church: Reported in the churchyard ca. 1780 and, again, in 1920
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: According to Handcock [cf. FontNotes] "somewhat like" the font at nearby Tallaght and the one in the old church of the Monastery at Friarstown
Church Notes: The church was destroyed in 1787 by an explosion at the powder-mill nearby
Mentioned in Handcock (1899) as a baptismal font "somewhat like" the font at nearby Tallaght and the one in the old church of the Monastery at Friarstown [cf. Index entry for Friarstown for a description of its font]. The font and two crosses were reported seen in the churchyard of this parish by Austin Cooper on his visit to Clondalkin in 1780 [source:Ken Finlay's web page at http://indigo.ie/~kfinlayball1-6/ball4.11.htm]. Joyce (1920: chapter XXI: [??]) describes, among other remains found in the churchyard of this church, "an old font, rudely fashioned out of a granite boulder" [the 1st ed. of Joyce's work is from 1912, therefore the font may have been seen there about that time]. The Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1914, vol. 44: 273) identifies "a large font of granite" in the ruins of the church that had been destroyed in 1787 by an explosion at a neighbouring powder-mill, but gives no further detail of it. [NB: Handcock does not give a location for tis font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

REFERENCES

Handcock, William Domville, The History and Antiquities of Tallaght in the County of Dublin, Dublin: [s.n.], 1899
Joyce, Weston St John, The Neighbourhood of Dublin, [Dublin?]: [s.n.], 1920
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1849+