Bruree / Brú Rí
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Image Source: Charlie Healy [www.limerickdioceseheritage.org]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 15/3/2004)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09397BRU
Object Type: Stoup?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Museum: De Valera Museum, [unknown]
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Munchin, Bruree
Font Location in Church: [now in a museum]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Munchin [aka Mainchin, Manchen]
Church Notes: present church 1842
Church Address: Bruree, Co. Limerick, V35 ND88, Ireland
Site Location: Limerick, Munster, Republic of Ireland, Europe
Directions to Site: Bruree is located off the R518, just E of the N20, 6-7 km WNW of Kilmallock
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Limerick
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: probably a domestic vessel converted to stoup
Font Notes:
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A quadrangular stone object used as a holy-water stoup in the church of St. Munchin, Bruree, now kept in the De Valera Museum. The object could well have been a medieval domestic vessel originally.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Charlie Healy, webmaster of www.limerickdioceseheritage.org for the photograph of this object.
COORDINATES
UTM: 29U 522982 5808284
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.42429, -8.66202
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 25′ 27.44″ N, 8° 39′ 43.27″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: quadrangular
Basin Interior Shape: quadrangular
Basin Exterior Shape: quadrangular