File:St. Maelruan's Font, Tallaght, Co. Dublin.jpg

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English: This enormous stone bowl or font stands/stood in Tallaght in South County Dublin. The creation of such a font must have been a great undertaking at the time and have taken a long time to complete. What was it used for and is it still in situ?

While I have the vaguest of notions that we have come across archaic words for a font previously ("pant"?), I do not think we've encountered the word "losset" before. But, apparently, this is what we have here. Losset is an old-Irish word for a trough, and this example is St. Maelruan's Losset in Tallaght. Apparently used for ceremonial feet bathing (rather than as a baptismal font), it seems quite ancient. Though, was apparently moved in the very late 19th century - perhaps dating this image to after c.1899....

Photographer: Thomas H. Mason

Collection: Mason Photographic Collection

Date: Catalogue range c.1890-1910. Perhaps after c.1899 (re-sited?)

NLI Ref: M14/31

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Camera location53° 17′ 20.89″ N, 6° 21′ 52.72″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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St. Maelruan's Losset/font, Tallaght, Co. Dublin

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53°17'20.886"N, 6°21'52.722"W

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10 June 2008

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