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Font in Knightstown

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Kilshine's three-legged font stands in the Kells graveyard today, its small circular basin holding water for baptisms since medieval times. The stone crossed counties and centuries to reach St. Columba's church, carrying prayers from a lost building into a living one.
The circular font (ext. diam. 0.63m; int. diam. 0.43m; D 0.25m; H 0.61m) with three short legs from the church of Kilshine (Roe 1968, 121-2) is now inthe graveyard (ME017-044034-) at St. Columba’s Church of Ireland church, in Kells (ME017-044040-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 23 May, 2014 Amended: 18 June, 2014

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