Font in Kilbeg, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

Built into the wall of a deserted farmyard. An elongated pear-shaped granite block (dims. 0.93m x 0.65m x 0.4m). The broad end of the stone is rectangular and roughly dressed with an oval basin (dims. 0.41m x 0.37m x 0.11m) in one face. The other end is pointed and rough.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI010-046

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