Kilballyone / Cill Bhaile Eoghain / Killballyoewn
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13155KIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church [ruins]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: R487, Kilballyowen, Cross, Co. Clare, Ireland -- Tel.: +353 65 905 8008
Site Location: Clare, Munster, Republic of Ireland, Europe
Directions to Site: Killballyoewn is located off the R487, 21 km W of Kilrush, at the end of the Loop Head Peninsula, to the Nh of the Shannon Estuary
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Killaloe
Historical Region: Barony of Moyarta
Additional Comments: damaged font / fragment [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Reported by Westropp ([1900]) as a font that "remained in 1816", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1889-1901), Vol. 6 (1900 - 1902), pp. 100-180 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/20488773] [accessed: 07/08/2013 21:49]: "Fonts of medieval times are few in number [...] one remained in 1816 at Kilballyone".
An entry for Kilballyone Parish (1892, Vol. II (1)) in the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland [https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/memorials/kilballyhone.htm] [accessed 21 August 2025] notes: "Kilballyhone Parish. The church is without a roof, nor is it likely that it has been covered in for a century and a-half; yet the walls are standing, and in perfect repair [...] Here are the remains of a baptismal font, which has been broken; but on each side of the square pedestal which supported it, are figures not inelegantly sculptured; but only two of them remain perfect—one of these is an (sic) human figure, bare-headed, with a staff or crozier in his hand; and the other a tree, with two projecting branches."
The entry for this church in Simon Large (2011) [https://www.clarecoco.ie/services/planning/publications/heritageconservation/clare-ruined-churches-graveyard-survey-2010-27628.pdf] [accessed 21 August 2025] notes: "The ruined Church of Kilballyowen [...] There is not a cut stone in the whole building", but it mentions an architectural fragment in it: "broken base of water stoop, 151015N,079020E" [NB: we are unable to ascertain whether this is the same object noted above [cf. supra]].
An entry for Kilballyone Parish (1892, Vol. II (1)) in the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland [https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/memorials/kilballyhone.htm] [accessed 21 August 2025] notes: "Kilballyhone Parish. The church is without a roof, nor is it likely that it has been covered in for a century and a-half; yet the walls are standing, and in perfect repair [...] Here are the remains of a baptismal font, which has been broken; but on each side of the square pedestal which supported it, are figures not inelegantly sculptured; but only two of them remain perfect—one of these is an (sic) human figure, bare-headed, with a staff or crozier in his hand; and the other a tree, with two projecting branches."
The entry for this church in Simon Large (2011) [https://www.clarecoco.ie/services/planning/publications/heritageconservation/clare-ruined-churches-graveyard-survey-2010-27628.pdf] [accessed 21 August 2025] notes: "The ruined Church of Kilballyowen [...] There is not a cut stone in the whole building", but it mentions an architectural fragment in it: "broken base of water stoop, 151015N,079020E" [NB: we are unable to ascertain whether this is the same object noted above [cf. supra]].
COORDINATES
UTM: 29U 447778 5827904
REFERENCES
- Westropp, Thomas Johnson, "The Churches of County Clare: other features", [unknown], [????]