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Font in Raheenadeeragh

Font

What is recorded here

Half a square font with rounded corners and a circular basin still stands in the graveyard of a ruined medieval church. Its worn lip holds two rectangular mortices for hinge pins, proving a lid once closed the water from rain and dust. The missing half may have broken under cart wheels or been pulled away for building stone, but the surviving basin keeps its shape and purpose beneath the open sky.
In a graveyard (KD034-005001-) containing a ruined medieval church (KD034-005----). Half of a roughly square font with rounded corners survives (original ext. L 0.77m E-W; surviving L 0.35m N-S; H 0.33m) with a circular basin (original diam. 0.52m; D 0.2m) in which half of a drain-hole also survives. The upper lip of the font (av. Wth 8cm) contains two worn rectangular mortices (L 5cm; Wth 3cm; D 3cm) to take the hinges of a lid. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 26 November

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