Recorded as a font in earlier surveys, it is in fact a stoup, a distinction that matters more than it might initially seem. A font is a large basin used for baptism, typically a fixed and prominent feature at the entrance to a church. A stoup is something altogether more modest: a shallow wall-mounted vessel, filled with holy water, used by the faithful to bless themselves on entering or leaving a sacred space. The two objects served different liturgical purposes, and confusing them quietly obscures what kind of religious life once took place at a site.

The misidentification has a traceable paper trail. A 1973 preliminary report on monuments of archaeological interest in County Wicklow, compiled by M. Reynolds for An Foras Forbartha Teoranta, described the fragment as a holy water font. That description carried forward into at least one later listing, in 1986, though by 1995 the site had been dropped from the record entirely. The correction to stoup came later still, suggesting the fragment spent the better part of three decades categorised under the wrong object type. Burgage More itself lies in a part of Wicklow with a layered medieval history, and architectural fragments like this one, separated from whatever structure they once belonged to, can be difficult to place with confidence once their original context has been lost.