What is recorded here

Two weathered stone stoups crouch outside St Mary at Eslin, one raised on a pedestal and one sunk into the earth like a forgotten well. They may have traveled from an older church near Cavan, carrying water for hands that washed before prayer in another century. The stones remember turbulence even when the building above them is new.

Outside the Roman Catholic church of St Mary at Eslin, which was built in 1844, are two stone stoups. One is a rounded bowl (ext. diam. 0.4m; int. diam. 0.35m; H 0.15m; D 0.09m) on a pedestal. The other is a circular bowl (int. diam. 0.43m; D 0.15m) set into the ground outside the church door. The original find-spot is not known with certainty but they may have come from an earlier Roman Catholic church at Cavan, represented on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map c. 400m to the SE, on the E side of the public road, the site of which is still extant. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 March 2019 Amended: 5 December 2019

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