What is recorded here

You can still touch the 1681 marble font inside the newer Carrickart church, though the first building that held it has vanished into the graveyard. The octagonal stone stands taller than most people expect, carrying a coat-of-arms and the kind of plain date that stops argument before it begins. Whatever worshipped around it has stopped speaking, but the font remains, blunt and unafraid of being moved.

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)

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