Font in Russellstown (athy Rural Ed) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Russellstown church vanished, but its font still stands in a modern farmyard, a circular limestone basin no larger than a dining table. The Athy Cemeteries Committee identified the buried graveyard beside it, while scattered architectural fragments suggest the building was levelled rather than abandoned. The font has two shallow rebates on its upper edge, perhaps for a hinged lid, as if baptismal water should have been kept from rain, dust and curious hands.

In a modern farmyard. On the site identified by the Athy Cemeteries Committee (athycemeteriescommittee@hotmail.com) as being that of Russellstown church (KD035-100----) and graveyard (KD035-100001-). Architectural fragments (KD035-100003-), presumably from the levelled church, also survive. A roughly dressed, circular limestone font (diam. 0.54m; H 0.36m; basin diam. 0.26m; D 0.24m) has two shallow rebates on its upper edge, perhaps to accommodate a hinged lid. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 19 December 2012

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