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'Font/piscina. Granite. Badly damaged. (diams. 0.70m x 0.74m; diam. of basin 0.35m; D of basin 0.2m). Set on pier base of friary church transept (KD040-002005-). Comerford (1891-5) states that it came from St James' church (KD040-002003-) (Bradley et al. 1986, vol. 2, 111) Date of upload: 8 September 2016

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD040-002007

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