Clogher / Clochar
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14515CLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1041?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century (mid?), Pre-Conquest
Church / Chapel Name: Cathedral of St. Macartin [aka Macartan] (C. of I.)
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Macartan [aka Macartin, Aedh Mac Cairthinn]
Site Location: Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A28, 29 km S of Omagh
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Clogher
Historical Region: formerly county Tyrone
Additional Comments: disappeared or destroyed font?
Font Notes:
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Noted in Rowan (2003): "Font. C18, in polished black marble, with a fluted basin and a gadrooned baluster base". [NB: this same source notes that the "early Christian and medieval predecessors of the cathedral have vanished"; a church is known to have been built here in 1041, re-built in 1295; destroyed by fire in April 1396, and re-built thereafter; we have no information on the earlier font(s) here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 29U 616802 6031374
REFERENCES
- Rowan, Alistair, North West Ulster: the counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, New Haven / London: Yale University Press / Penguin Books, 2003 c1979, p. 192