Cashel / Caiseal, Cormack's Chapel
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Image Source: JRSAI (1891, vol. 21: 629); Petrie (1845: 305)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09296CAS
Object Type: Other
Object Details: sarcophagus
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church (R.C.) [on the site of the old Franciscan Friary, aka Hacket's Abbey
Font Location in Church: Inside the R.C. church
Church Notes: The Abbey was founded by Sir William Hacket ca. 1265, later to be become a Franciscan Friary
Church Address: Friar St, St. Francisabbey, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
Site Location: Tipperary, Munster, Republic of Ireland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the R692, N of the M74-N8 crossroads, about 20 km ENE of Tipperary city
Additional Comments: recycled font: formerly a sarcophagus -- It may have never been meant as a font MUST USE: see story about tradesman destroying the inscription on the cover [FontsNotes]
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Petrie (1845: 305). Described and illustrated in a report to the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland [after Petrie] (1891, vol. 21: 629): "Though popularly described as a 'Font', this is evidently a tomb, the covering stone of which was ornamented with a cross, and exhibited an inscription in Irish, containing the name of Cormac, king and bishop of Munster. The sculpture and inscription were ground off by a tradesman, who apprpriated the stone as a monument for himself and family. The interlaced ornament of the front of the tomb is of the 12th century."
The JRSAI entry [cf.supra] cites Petrie's 'Round Towers (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1845) as a good source for a detailed description of this object.
The Franciscan web site for Ireland has this object reported as a sarcophagus from the old Franciscan Friary, also known as the Hacket's Abbey, now used as a font in the parish church [source: www.franciscans.ie/152.0.html]
The JRSAI entry [cf.supra] cites Petrie's 'Round Towers (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1845) as a good source for a detailed description of this object.
The Franciscan web site for Ireland has this object reported as a sarcophagus from the old Franciscan Friary, also known as the Hacket's Abbey, now used as a font in the parish church [source: www.franciscans.ie/152.0.html]
COORDINATES
UTM: 29U 575359 5819091
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.516717, -7.889428
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 0.18″ N, 7° 53′ 21.94″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: rectangular
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Atkinson, George M., "[untitled intervention in 'Notes and Queries']", 4th series, vol. IX [vol. 19], Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, [1879?]
- Petrie, George, The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion; comprising an Essay on the Origin and Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland, Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1845, p. 305
- Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1849+