Kilcorney / Cill Choirne / Kilcornane
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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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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]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09283KIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Kilcorney Church [in ruins]
Font Location in Church: Reported ca. 1900 in the ruins of the old church; reported in situ in April 2002 [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: Kilcorney Church Ruins, Co. Clare, Ireland
Site Location: Clare, Munster, Republic of Ireland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the R480, 11 km NNW of Corofin
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora
Historical Region: Barony of Burren
Additional Comments: abandoned font (?)
Font Notes:
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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 CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/id/cl/kilco/index.htm] [accessed 30 September 2007]: "Font. 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".
COORDINATES
UTM: 29U 489722 5876726
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.039949, -9.153288
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 2′ 23.81″ N, 9° 9′ 11.84″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI: "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
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- 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; p. 283 / [http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/clare_churches/burren_barony.htm] [accessed 30 September 2007]
- Westropp, Thomas Johnson, "The Churches of County Clare: other features", [unknown], [????]