Cloneamery No. 2 / Clonamery / Cloone

INFORMATION

Font ID: 09273CLO
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Ancient Church of Cloneamery [in ruins]
Font Location in Church: Reported ca. 1925 in the ruins of the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Broondhawn? St. Brendan?
Church Address: Clonamery, Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
Site Location: Kilkenny, Leinster, Republic of Ireland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the R700, on the N bank of the river Nore, 3 km SE of Inistioge
Font Notes:
Reported in Crawford (1925: 57 [read to the Society on 4 March 1924]) simply as a "holy water stoup" found in the ruins of the ancient church of Cloone or Cloneamery. The entry for Clonamery in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=15414] [accessed 1 August 2025] notes: "The church was an ancient foundation dedicated to St Bronndan. It was recorded as a prebendal church as far back as 1300. According to local tradition the church continued in use as a Catholic chapel up to the defeat of Edward Fitzgerald at the Battle of Aughrim in 1691" but mentions no font or stoup in it. [cf. Index entry for Cloneamery No. 1 for a fragment of the baptismal font reported in the same site]

COORDINATES

UTM: 29U 633710 5814797
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.466944, -7.031667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 28′ 1″ N, 7° 1′ 54″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Crawford, Henry S., "Notes on the Church of Cloone or Cloneamery, Counte Kilkenny", 55, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1925, pp. 54-57; p. 57