What is recorded here

Batterstown keeps a rectangular granite font from an unknown medieval church, its drain-hole buried under soil and its rim pitted for a lost lid. The stone sits in the grounds of the Assumption, small enough to lift yet heavy with forgotten ceremonies. Children may have stood beside it, priests may have poured water into it, and whole parishes may have turned it into a place where life entered the world. What is missing is not a defect; it is an invitation to hear the absent church through the shape the font still holds.

Located in the grounds of the Roman Catholic church of the Assumption at Batterstown. This is a rectangular granite font (ext. dims 0.58m x 0.58m; H 0.34m) with a rectangular basin (int. dims 0.42m x 0.41m; D 0.16m). Externally, it has chamfered corners at the bottom (H 0.21m) and its drain-hole is obscured by soil. Two of the sides have two shallow depressions (diam. 4cm) on the rim for the attachment of a lid. It is not known from which medieval church site it came. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 April, 2015

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