Cruicetown / Baile Chrúis / Cruicetoun / Cruicetown

Described in Roe (1968: 111-112) as a possibly medieval baptismal font located in the old church belonging to the Cruises' manor house. The bowl is octagonal with four wide and four narrow sides, "tapering slightly from top to bottom"; the well is "oval rather than round" and has a central drain; it is raised on a "coarsely worked almost cylindrical block to which it has been cemented though the two parts do not appear to belong together". Roe (ibid.) comments that "the whole presents so poor and ungainly an appearance the it is difficult to accept it as the font proper of the manor church so great and wealthy a family as the Cruises". The entry for this church in Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruicetown_Church] [accessed 29 July 2025] reports: "Within the nave is a red sandstone baptismal font and several carved fragments."