Johnstown nr. Naas / Baile Eoin / Fraoch Oileán
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Arch of Hospitaller church, Johnstown Co Kildare"
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Hospitaller church, Johnstown Co Kildare"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sheila1988, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 3 January 2022 by Sheila1988 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hospitaller_church,_Johnstown_Co_Kildare.jpg] [accessed 13 January 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25786JOH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Church Location: Johnstown Cottages, County Kildare, Ireland
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Kildare, Leinster
Directions to Site: Located off the N7, 2 km N of Naas, about 25 km WSW of Dublin
Font Location in Church: In the church ruins
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century (?), Gothic
Church Notes: church belonged to the St. John's (Hospitaller) Priory in Kilmainham, Dublin; fell into disrepair after the 16thC Dissolution but the churchyard stayed in use afterwards
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church ruins in the Kildare Federation of Local History Groups (KFLHG) [https://kildarelocalhistory.ie/kill/history-of-kill/history-of-johnstown/] [accessed 13 January 2025] notes: "The old graveyard at Johnstown contains a number of fragments, including the octagonal base of a medieval baptismal font". The fragment is illustrated in Castlehunter's blog erntry for 14 June 2013 [https://irelandinruins.blogspot.com/2013/06/old-johnstown-church-co-kildare.html] [accessed 13 January 2025]: it appears to be part of the lower stem of the base of a baptismal font, octagonal with lower stops that make it square at the bottom; it has a very broad drain hole in the centre, which would have connected it to the drain hole in the basin. The same fragment is noted and illustrated in Patrick Comeford [https://www.patrickcomerford.com/2016_01_30_archive.html] [accessed 13 January 2025]: "octagonal base of a mediaeval baptismal font within the walls of the ruined church".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.23491, -6.62259
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 14′ 5.68″ N, 6° 37′ 21.32″ W
UTM: 29U 658669 5901041
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Drainage Notes: though basin missing