Drumconrath / Drumcondrath / Drumconra

Described in Cogan (1992 c1862, vol. II: 294) as a baptismal font serving as an ornament in the Rector's garden. Described in Roe (1968: 114) as a medieval baptismal font, "a well-made, substantial, flat-bottomed vessel with four wide and four narrow sides. All the panels are slightly chamfered inwards at the bottom. Sockets for the attachment of a cover are worked in two opposite panels. The basin is circular with almost vertical sides and a central drain." Roe (ibid.) remarks on the presence of "a small projection, like a little shelf, juts out from the rim of one of the narrow panels", but finds it "rather too small to have served as a stand for the cruets of holy oils" and resolves that "its purpose remains unexplained". Roe (ibid.) adds that, even though at the time of her own visit [i.e., ca. 1968] this font stood in the graveyard, it must be the same font reported about one hundred years earlier [ca, 1862] in the Rector's garden by Cogan [cf. supra], since "there seems to be no trace of any vessel other than this one in the vecinity".