Font in Sleaty, County Laois

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What is recorded here

Octagonal font in roughly dressed granite (W. c. 0.81m, D. c. 0.48m, T. 0.12m) located at W end of church (LA032-018001-). Described by Comerford as ' Inside the old church of Sletty, near the doorway, and to the left as you enter there is a large font of granite with a deep circular hollow, and pierced in the centre, which appears to me to have belonged to the primitive church of St. Fiacc. There was also a holy well (LA032-018004-) near this church called Tober-Feeg, but it is now stopped up' (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 249). Updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 19 March 2015

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA032-018005

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