Font in Townparks (upper Dundalk By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

One unsteady boulder still holds water in Dundalk, carrying children from the old Franciscan monastery at Seatown through the chapel built in 1750. Its uneven cavity refuses the clean line of a made basin, as if the rock itself learned to receive life before people gave it that job. It has survived the loss of both churches, still sitting in the grounds of St. Nicholas's like a forgotten guest who never stopped belonging.

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Rests on a large boulder in the grounds of St. Nicholas's Catholic Church. According to tradition it belonged originally to the church of the Franciscan Monastery at Seatown and was later used as a baptismal font in the old chapel in Chapel Lane, which was built in 1750. The font is a large irregular shaped boulder with an uneven cavity forming the basin. (CLAJ 1910, 305-6)

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