Font in Castletimon, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

A cylindrical block of coarse-grained granite (Wth 80cm across) with a sub-rectangular, steep-sided basin (48cm x 45cm across the top; 42cm x 36cm across the base; D 18cm). The rim around the basin is roughly flat and damaged along one edge. The base is quite rough, and falls slightly to one side where there is a drain hole at the edge of the basin, set at a roughly 45° angle. The hole is 4cm across within the basin, narrows to 1cm, and expands again to 5cm across where it exits the stone. Moved from Castletimon to graveyard of 'St. Mary's' church Barrindarrig (see WI031-067---- for present location record).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI036-009004

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