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Font in Blackabbey

Font

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Under the Blackabbey tower, an ancient font waits in darkness, its simple leaf pattern hidden beneath a shallow bowl. Augustinian monks likely dipped newborn heads into that quiet water, binding innocent flesh to divine mercy before the child drew a full breath. The stone has survived every human temptation to forget or destroy, keeping its small sacred shape intact while empires and churches crashed around it.
According to Urban Survey of Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 31) 'there is an early font under the tower' (i.e. of the Augustinian Black Abbey LI021-032006-). This is a bowl with some form of simple 'leaf' patterning on undersurface'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 04 November 2019

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