Graveyard in Carraig Airt, County Donegal

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What is recorded here

In the Church of Ireland Church at Carrickart, built in 1895 (Rowan 1979, 168) is a 17th century marble font (DG017-021001-), 1.16m high. The upper section of the octagonal shaft is squared to a flat surface on which is carved, in false relief, the inscription: EX: DONO R:A 1681. There is a quartered coat-of-arms below. The square base has four raised bosses on the corners of its octagonally-chamfered upper surface. The sixteen sided bowl has a tapering base. According to Lucas the first church (DG017-021) at Carrickart was built in 1674 or 1675 and this has since been removed and its site is used as part of the graveyard (Donegal Archaeological Survey field notes)

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG017-021002

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