What is recorded here

Killiney is a place where seven daughters of Leinin built a church in the sixth century, and a round granite font still stands inside the ruined aisle where baptismal water once marked a life into the world. Aighleann and her sisters gave the hill a name, a purpose and a boundary, while ordinary people carried children, cloth and hope through the same door. The font no longer needs a church around it to tell the truth. It is a small deep vessel set in stone, waiting for the world to remember that killing and naming are not the same act.

Killiney church ruins are located on the Marino Avenue West, leading E off Killiney Hill road. Medieval baptismal font of Killiney (Cill Iníon Léinín/church of the seven daughters of Léinín) monastery founded in the 6th-century by its patron saint Aighleann and her sisters, now standing inside the church ruins (DU026-013001-) in Killiney graveyard (DU026-013002-), Co. Dublin. Remains consist of a roughly circular-shaped or bowl-shaped granite font (diam. 0.46m) standing on the floor of the N aisle of the medieval church of Killiney. To see a 3D model of this font, visit: https://skfb.ly/oEzyU Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 March 2023

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