What makes this a curious case is not what the object was but what became of it, which is to say: nobody knows.

A font, in the ecclesiastical sense, is a basin used for baptismal water, typically mounted on a stone shaft and placed near the entrance of a church. The bowl recorded at Mollaneen was square in form, decorated with moulding around the lip and at the point where it would have joined its shaft, though that shaft was already absent when it was noted. A mid-nineteenth-century observer considered it to be medieval in type. Swinfen, writing in 1992, recorded that it had been seen in the churchyard around 1855, but added that there had been no sign of it for many years by the time of writing. Whether it was removed, buried under shifting ground, incorporated into some other structure, or simply lost to the ordinary disorder of time is not recorded. Its present location remains unknown.