Font in Kilcoolyabbey

Placed up against the S wall of the SE chapel of the N transept of Kilcooly Abbey (TS043-034001-). This square limestone font (0.56m x 0.52m; H 0.29m) has a straight-sided, flat-bottomed, circular base (diam. 0.46m; D 0.2m) with a central drainage hole (diam. 0.04m). The visible external faces of the font are decorated in relief consisting of eight round-headed flutes on the E face, Gothic tracery of ribbed vault patterns with three round-headed flutes and a twisted column on the N face and Gothic tracery of ribbed vault patterns on the W face. The pedestal on which the font stands is reconstructed and consists of a chamfered double-column base with broach stops from the cloister arcade (0.37m x 0.28m; H 0.19m) resting on a tapering limestone column (H 0.56m; diam. at top 0.14m; diam. at base 0.2m). (Pike 1989, 578-9). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/2010).