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Font in Commons, County Wicklow (WI025-088001-)

Font (present location)
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What is recorded here

The font is currently held in St Joseph's Church in Rathnew village. A nearby graveyard (WI025-010003-) contains a ruined church (WI025-010001-), and a font (WI025-010002-). A roughly shaped, rectangular granite block (dims. L 0.5m; Wth 0.43m; H 0.32m high) contains a finely carved, smooth, steep-sided, almost circular basin (diams. 0.30m; 0.27m; D 0.13m.). Record no. WI025-088002- was created for the unknown 'Original location' of this font.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI025-088001

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WI025-088001-
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Photo credits
  • Rafał Wesołowski, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Picture: officialwicklowgaa.ie
  • Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · CC BY-SA 2.5
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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