White Island

INFORMATION

FontID: 14519WHI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Church ruins

Country Name: Northern Ireland

Location: Fermanagh

Directions to Site: Located in Lower Lough Erne, across [ferry ride] from Castle Archdale

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bullaun font?

Church Notes: a Sheila-na-Gig and other very interesting figures found here; perhaps from the wooden church that existed prior to the 12th-century building? [cf. http://www.chrono.qub.ac.uk/local/fermanagh/WhiteIsland/ for images and details]

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Rowan (2003) as a "square font or bullaun" located in the ruins of the 12th-century Romanesque church.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Rowan, Alistair, North West Ulster: the counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, New Haven / London: Yale University Press / Penguin Books, 2003 c1979