What is recorded here

Castleboy holds a plain octagonal sandstone font whose damaged circular basin still stands on a modern pyramidal base. Inside the church on the old Tara parish site, its small chamfered panels and possible crude IHS marking suggest baptismal use long before the present building. The font is not grand, but it preserves the kind of repeated ceremonial life that made such places sacred.

Inside the church on the site of the parish church of Tara (ME031-033071-) is a plain octagonal sandstone font (ext. dim. 0.58m) with the damaged wall of its circular basin (int. diam. 0.44m; present D 0.13m) and chamfered under-panels (surviving H 0.32m). It is resting on a modern pyramidal base, and Roe (1968, 128) has detected incised letters that might be a crude IHS inscription on an upper panel that is secondary. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 January, 2015

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