Font, Derrynahinch, Co. Kilkenny

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Font, Derrynahinch, Co. Kilkenny

In the townland of Derrynahinch, in the quiet interior of County Kilkenny, there is a place recorded simply as a font.

The designation is spare but suggestive. In an Irish archaeological context, a font typically refers to a carved stone basin associated with religious use, sometimes a baptismal vessel, sometimes a holy water stoup displaced from a ruined church, sometimes something older and harder to categorise. That this one has been mapped and assigned a monument record at all means it was considered significant enough to note, even if the details of what it looks like, how old it is, or where exactly it sits in the landscape remain, for now, largely undisclosed.

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