Repurposed as a garden feature rather than a liturgical object, it is the kind of survival that slips quietly past most visitors, its ecclesiastical origins easy to miss once the original context has been stripped away. A font, in medieval church practice, was the stone basin used for baptism, typically placed near the entrance of a church to mark the threshold between the unbaptised and the Christian community. This one, however, has long since been removed from any such setting.

The Urban Survey of Limerick, published by Bradley and others in 1989, recorded the object in some detail. It is rectangular in form, deeply chamfered on its edges, and carved from sandstone. It measures 45 centimetres in height and 65 centimetres in width. Two rows of moulding decorate its surface, one of which is beaded, suggesting a degree of craft that was not unusual in medieval ecclesiastical stonework but is now rarely encountered in situ in this region. The font has sustained damage on three of its four sides, where iron bars were at some point affixed to it, perhaps to secure it during an earlier relocation or repurposing. Its rim is also damaged, and the pedestal it rests on is a modern replacement rather than original. Most telling of all, the basin is filled with clay, which means it has not been possible to confirm whether the original drainage hole at its base is still intact.

For anyone curious enough to seek it out, the font sits in the rockery to the rear of the modern church building in Croom. It is not displayed prominently, and there is no interpretive signage drawing attention to it. The damage it carries, the missing drainage hole, the scarred sides, the makeshift pedestal, tells its own story about how medieval stonework was treated once it ceased to serve an obvious practical function. The beaded moulding is worth looking for closely, since it is the detail that most clearly marks this out as a worked, intentional object rather than simply a lump of old stone.