Glinsk / Gleann Uisce / Glinsce
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by Christy Cunniffe in Galway Community Heritage (11 September 2016) [https://field-monuments.galwaycommunityheritage.org/content/archaeology/glinsk-water-stoup] [accessed 31 July 2023]
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Christy Cunniffe in Galway Community Heritage (11 September 2016) [https://field-monuments.galwaycommunityheritage.org/content/archaeology/glinsk-water-stoup] [accessed 31 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: The use of content for educational or private purposes is permitted on condition that the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage is credited as the source
INFORMATION
FontID: 24836GLI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Saint Michael's Catholic Church, Keelogesbeg, Castlerea, Co. Galway, Ireland
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Galway, Connacht
Directions to Site: Located off the R340, between Creggs (SSE) and Ballymoe (NNW), about 30 km WNW of Roscommon, 68 km NE of Galway city
Font Location in Church: Outside, in the porch
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: the present church is dated 1840-1890
Holy-water stoup wall-mounted in the porch; identified and illustrated in Christy Cunniffe in Galway Community Heritage (11 September 2016) [https://field-monuments.galwaycommunityheritage.org/content/archaeology/glinsk-water-stoup] [accessed 31 July 2023]: "Holy water stoup in Glinsk Catholic church [...] Consists of an inscribed limestone holy water stoup or font in the porch of Glinsk Catholic church. Erected by the Rev William Harrington PP AD 1843. Regular contact with the bowl of this post-Emancipation font has caused the limestone to become polished and take on the sheen of black marble." The stoup and its inscription is also noted in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage [https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/30400702/saint-michaels-catholic-church-keelogesbeg-co-galway] [accessed 31 July 2023], as well as the date of the church "1840 - 1890", but there is no information on the possible provenance of the late-medieval stoup.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.651176,
-8.432030
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 39' 4.2" N,
8° 25' 55.3" W
UTM: 29U 445465 5914146
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Font Shape: round (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the basin sides
Inscription Text: "Erected by The / Revd- / William / Harrington PP / AD 1843"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes & ImagesArea]
