White Island
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14519WHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bullaun font?
Church / Chapel Name: Church ruins
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
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]
Site Location: Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in Lower Lough Erne, across [ferry ride] from Castle Archdale
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Island,_County_Fermanagh
Font Notes:
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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, p. 506