Font in An Gróbh, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

'A plain octagonal stone font which now stands in the modern edifice is traditionally associated with the medieval church [KE043-224005-].' See attached plan and photograph taken from Dunne 2019, 9. The above description is from J. Cuppage et al., 'Archaeological Survey of the Dingle Peninsula.' (Oidhreacht Chorca Duibhne, 1986) Date of upload: 20 January 2012

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE043-224007

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
N Chadwick, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
Dingle GAA club website; individual photographer not named, dinglegaa.ie
N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
David Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, Wikimedia Commons

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