Kyleogue / An Chaológ / Killogue / Keelogue
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09266KYL
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Ruins of the old church
Font Location in Church: In the churchyard
Church Address: Kyleogue, Durrow, Co. Laois, Ireland
Site Location: Laois, Leinster, Republic of Ireland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the R639, on the N bank of river Goul, in the parish and 6 km W of Durrow, itself about 23 km SSW of Port Laoighise. The township of Keelogue [An Chaológ] shows off the R430, and there is a Killogue near Ballyboodin, and there is a St Aedhog, ruins of church, known as Keeloge/Killogue Burial, Ballyboodin
Font Notes:
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Described in Carrigan (1905, vol. 2): "Some years ago the holy water font, recovered from the Gowl river, to which, perhaps, pious hands had committed it, to save it from desecration, was again brought back to the churchyard; it is of freestone, very rough with bowl 12 in. deep". [source: www.irishmidlandsancestry.com/content/laois/community/parishhistories/durrow_parish.htm] [URL times out]
COORDINATES
UTM: 29U 608264 5856150
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, freestone
Number of Pieces: one
Basin Depth: 30 cm [approx.]
REFERENCES
- Carrigan, William, The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, Dublin: Sealy & Co., 1905, vol. 1