Font

The National Monuments Service's description

According to D'Alton (1838, 684) there was a baptismal font in Kilmactalway graveyard (DU021-003002-).
Medieval font moved from Kilmactalway graveyard to St Finian's Roman Catholic Church at Newcastle, Co. Dublin which was described in 1904 as follows; 'The Roman Catholic chapel at this place [Newcastle], built a.d. 1813, as an inscription over the door testifies, has monuments from that date in the graveyard, and some interesting memorial windows.' Old Font at the Chapel. It is a rude, granite block, with an oblong hole in the centre.
It is of fair size, and lay in the churchyard of Kilmactalway [DU021-003002-] In Dalton, the County Dublin historian's, time. Its subsequent history is detailed by the inscription above it. It is placed at the west door, on the north side:
This
Holy Water font belonged
to the Church of Kilmactalway
on the property of
the Bagot family for centuries
I have removed it
and placed it here
in memory of
James John Bagot
my beloved lamented husband
his name is dear to you all
he departed this life, on the 9th of June 1860
Pray for him also for me
Ellen Maria Bagot' (Fowler 1906, 281).

Folwer, J. 1906 Newcastle Lyons Church of St. Finian. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Vol. VI, 1904-06, 275-81. Dublin

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 13 March 2023

References

D'Alton, J. 1838 (Reprint 1976) The history of the county of Dublin. Cork. Tower Books.

Ní Mharcaigh, M. 1997 The medieval parish churches of south-west County Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 97C, 245-96.