Clogher / Clochar

INFORMATION

FontID: 14515CLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Cathedral of St. Macartin [aka Macartan] (C. of I.)
Church Patron Saints: St. Macartan [aka Macartin, Aedh Mac Cairthinn]
Country Name: Northern Ireland
Location: Tyrone
Directions to Site: Located on the A28, 29 km S of Omagh
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Clogher
Historical Region: formerly county Tyrone
Date: ca. 1041?
Century and Period: 11th century (mid?), Pre-Conquest
Font Notes:
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