Kilcorney

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Tessa Garton, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2002, in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/id/cl/kilco/index.htm] [accessed 30 September 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09283KIL
Church/Chapel: Kilcorney Church [in ruins]
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Clare, Munster
Directions to Site: Located near Ennis and the crossing of the N-18 and the N-68
Font Location in Church: Reported ca. 1900 in the ruins of the old church; reported in situ in April 2002 [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Reported in Westropp (1895) as "a plain late font". Described in the Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1900), in a relation of a "Fourth excursion", probably by Thomas J. Westropp, a fellow of the Society: "Kilcorney church is worth a short visit, for though only a few ivied fragments remain, they enclose a curious font cut out of a single square block". Noted and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/id/cl/kilco/index.htm] [accessed 30 September 2007]: "Lying in the nave. Square bowl with plain chamfered sides and a central drain hole, with a short square stem. The base is separate and similarly chamfered".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Notes on Measurements: The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/id/cl/kilco/index.htm] [accessed 30 September 2007]: "Dimensions h. of bowl 0.38 m / w. of bowl 0.56 m / d. of bowl 0.56 m / h. of base 0.15 m / w. of base 0.52 m / d. of base 0.52 m"

REFERENCES

Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1849+
Westropp, Thomas Johnson, "Barony of Burren, Co. Clare", 25, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1895, pp. 279-284; r["References"]
Westropp, Thomas Johnson, "The Churches of County Clare: other features", [unknown], [????]