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Font in Ardagh

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Located at the crest of the W-facing slope of a drumlin. A possible font that has a faceted stem (diam. 0.3m; H 0.25m) expanding into a damaged basin (D 0.12m) but without a drain-hole that was in the graveyard (ME003-001001-) of Ardagh church (ME003-001----) in 1984 is now missing.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME003-001003

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • ClubInfo.ie / Kingscourt Stars GFC profile; individual photographer not named, www.clubinfo.ie
  • JP, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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