Newport nr. Limerick

INFORMATION

FontID: 09282NEW
Object Type: Stoup?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church (R.C.)
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Tipperary, Munster
Directions to Site: Newport is located on the R-503, about 20 km ENE of Limerick city
Font Location in Church: Reported ca. 1904 in the R.C. parish church at Newport, Co. Tipperary
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
Reported in Berry (1904: 102 and ill. on p. 101): "A carved holy-water font was many years ago rescued from the ruins [of Kilcomenty church], and brought to the old chapel at Birdhill [nearby]. This [i.e., the 'holy water font'] is now [i.e., ca. 1904] in charge of Rev. Canon Howard, P.P., and has been placed within the precints of the Roman Catholic Church at Newport." The date of the remains of the Kilcomanty church is judged by Berry to date to the late 15th or early 16th century, which may be the date of this 'font' [NB: Irish sources tend to use the term 'holy water font' often to designate a holy-water stoup [cf. Index entry for Kilcomenty for a rectangular stoup found and left in the abandoned graveyard]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

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. 103