What is recorded here

Mislabelled a font in official records, the Clonamery stoup is a holy water basin set into a rough granite boulder beside the west doorway. Its rectangular cavity measures twenty-three by twenty centimetres and seven centimetres deep, narrowing toward the base. People likely paused there before entering Clonamery church, dipping fingers into water held by stone rather than passing the block as mere wall material.

This was classified in the SMR (1987) and the RMP (1996) as an 'Font', however, this is actually a stoup which is a receptacle for holy water, originally positioned immediately inside the entrance doorway on one or other side. Described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 120) as, 'a granite holy water font, with rectangular cavity 9 in. by 8 in. and 2½ in. deep'. Associated with Clonamery church (KK033-021001-), it is not incorporated in the walling of the church. It is currently located 0.3m outside the church, close to the N jamb of the W doorway. It consists of a roughly dressed sub-rectangular granite boulder (dims. 0.39m x 0.37m; H 0.28m) with a carved rectangular basin (dims. 0.23m x 0.2m; D 0.07m) which splays in towards the base (dims. 0.13m x 0.12m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 October 2016

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