Cashel / Caiseal, Cormack's Chapel

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]