Font in Loughbrackan, County Meath

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What is recorded here

The font from Loughbrackan church is now outside the Roman Catholic church at Drumcondra (ME006-009----). It is a circular sandstone (ext. diam. 0.55m; H 0.33m) with a flat-bottomed basin (int. diam. 0.43m; D 0.16-0.19m). Three lugs (max. Wth 9cm; L 21cm; H 5cm) of an original four survive, and about a quarter of the basin wall is missing. Two small holes on the rim at opposite points provided a fastening for the cover.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME006-028002

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