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Issac Butler, writing c. 1749, recorded the apostle font at Kilcarn church (ME031-003----) (1892, 126). It was moved to Dublin for the Great Exhibition in 1853 (Roe 1968, 61), and after this it may have been moved to its present location in the Roman Catholic church at Johnstown (Cogan 1862-70, 2, 239-40) , c. 900m…

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Issac Butler, writing c. 1749, recorded the apostle font at Kilcarn church (ME031-003----) (1892, 126). It was moved to Dublin for the Great Exhibition in 1853 (Roe 1968, 61), and after this it may have been moved to its present location in the Roman Catholic church at Johnstown (Cogan 1862-70, 2, 239-40) , c. 900m NNW of its original home. It is made of limestone and is dodecagonal, or twelve-sided, in form (ext. dim. 0.77m; H 0.43m) with a flat-bottomed basin (diam. 0.51m; D 0.2m). Each side-panel is decorated as a high medieval ogee-headed niche, enriched with foliage, buttresses and pinnacles. Mythical beasts and human heads attached to the under-panels gnaw at the base of the columns separating the niches. The twelve apostles have been placed in eleven of the niches, two unfortunates having to share, while the twelfth panel depicts the crowning of the Virgin by her Son. All the apostles are seated on benches facing forward, and some can be identified by their symbols: Peter with the Keys; Paul with a sword; St. Andrew with a saltire. St. James is equipped as a pilgrim with a satchel over his shoulder and the scallop shell, the emblem of his great shrine of Compostella in NW Spain, in his hand. The font is dated by Roe (1968, 65-6) to the late 15th or early 16th century.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME031-003002

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