Devenish

INFORMATION

FontID: 14518DEV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Molaise (C. of I.) [originally from the Abbey Church ]
Church Patron Saints: St. Laserian [aka Laisren, Molaise, Molaissi]
Country Name: Northern Ireland
Location: Fermanagh
Directions to Site: The Abbey is located on Devenish Island (Lough Erne), 2-3 km N of Enniskillen. The Parish Church is located in Monea
Font Location in Church: Inside the Parish Church
Century and Period: , Medieval
A baptismal font in Devenish Abbey is mentioned in a 1876 annotated version of the Monasticon Hibernicum (1786), with reference to a 1874 article by Wakeman. Noted in Rowan (2003) as one of several pieces brought over to the Parish Church of St. Molaise from Devenish Abbey: "Font. A black stone bowl on an octagonal shaft".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Rowan, Alistair, North West Ulster: the counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, New Haven / London: Yale University Press / Penguin Books, 2003 c1979
Wakeman, William Drederick, "The antiquities of Devenish", January 1874, Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, 1874