Kilcomenty / Cill Comnata
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Scene Description: fragment -- Drawing by Thomas Westropp [date shows as "6 II 04" [i.e., 6 February 1904], in Berry
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Image Source: Berry (1904: ill. on p. 101)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09281KIL
Object Type: Stoup (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Commaneth [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Commaneth [aka Comanait, Commaneth of Kilcomenty]
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Tipperary, Munster
Directions to Site: Located near Birdhill, about 25 km NE of Limerick city
Font Location in Church: Reported ca. 1904 in the churchyard ruins
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Berry (1904: 102 and ill. on p. 101): "an oblong basin, probably that of a stoup" found ca. 1904 among other dressed stones in the churchyard of the ruined church of Kilcomeny, near Bridhill. The date of the remains is judged by Berry to date to the late 15th or early 16th century, which may be the date of the stoup. The illustration [by Thomas Westropp, also of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland] shows a fragment, rectangular, missing one of the sides, with a caption that reads "13. Stoup"] [cf. Index entry for Nepwort, Co. Tipperary, for a carved 'holy water font' originally from Kilcomenty, but later moved to Birdhill and, later still, to the R.C church at Newport]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: [fragment]
Font Shape: rectangular
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
REFERENCES
Berry, Henry F., "The Antiquities of the Parish of Kilcomenty, near Birdhill, County Tipperary", 34, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1904, pp. [99]-110; p. 102 and ill. on p. 101