Tallaght No. 1
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Scene Description: Source caption: "There are no remains from the early monastery, but the circular shape of the present graveyard may indicate the the boundary of the original enclosure. The present St Máelruain's Church, built in 1829, incorporates a medieval tower at the south west. This tower served as a belfry for the medieval church and is still used as such. I presume it may also have served as a watchtower or fortified residence."
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 January 2018 by Jim Dempsey, in Megalithic Ireland [http://www.megalithicireland.com/St Maelruan's Church,Tallaght.html] [accessed 5 November 2023]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Tallaght. St Maelruan's Font, AKA St Mollrooney's Losset. When you enter the churchyard at St Maelruans, it is virtually impossible to miss this huge granite trough. Although it is known as St Maelruan's Font, it was probably used by pilgrim's to bathe their feet on Maundy Thursday or during pilgrimages to the site. The name was distorted over the years and locally the font became known as St Mollrooney's Losset. Losat is an old irish word for a wooden trough used for kneading bread."
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 January 2018 by Jim Dempsey, in Megalithic Ireland [http://www.megalithicireland.com/St Maelruan's Font,Tallaght.html] [accessed 5 November 2023]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "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..."
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Thomas H. Mason [NLI Ref: M14/31] in the National Library of Ireland on The Commons' Mason Photographic Collection [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Maelruan's_Font,_Tallaght,_Co._Dublin.jpg] [accessed 5 November 2023]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "There are a number of interesting historic features in the grounds of the church. On left inside the churchyard gate is a font called St. Maelruain’s Losset. This is a wide and shallow granite stone trough or font. ‘Losat’ is an Old Irish word denoting a wooden trough used in former times for kneading bread. It is likely that the country people named it from its similarity in shape to the lossets which they used in their homes. St. Maelruain’s Cross lies south of the font. It is a small ancient cross set in a pedestal which is fixed in a circular granite base resembling a mill stone. The pedestal and base were formerly known as Moll Rooney’s loaf and griddle and the font was called Moll Rooney’s Losset."
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Image Source: digital photograph 17 April 2010 by Ken Larkin [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ballyfermot/4528508504/] [accessed 5 November 2023]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Tallaght. St Maelruan's Font, AKA St Mollrooney's Losset. When you enter the churchyard at St Maelruans, it is virtually impossible to miss this huge granite trough. Although it is known as St Maelruan's Font, it was probably used by pilgrim's to bathe their feet on Maundy Thursday or during pilgrimages to the site. The name was distorted over the years and locally the font became known as St Mollrooney's Losset. Losat is an old irish word for a wooden trough used for kneading bread."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jim Dempsey, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 22 January 2018 by Jim Dempsey, in Megalithic Ireland [http://www.megalithicireland.com/St Maelruan's Font,Tallaght.html] [accessed 5 November 2023]
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view of object in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tallaght. St Maelruan's Font, AKA St Mollrooney's Losset. When you enter the churchyard at St Maelruans, it is virtually impossible to miss this huge granite trough. Although it is known as St Maelruan's Font, it was probably used by pilgrim's to bathe their feet on Maundy Thursday or during pilgrimages to the site. The name was distorted over the years and locally the font became known as St Mollrooney's Losset. Losat is an old irish word for a wooden trough used for kneading bread."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jim Dempsey, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 22 January 2018 by Jim Dempsey, in Megalithic Ireland [http://www.megalithicireland.com/St Maelruan's Font,Tallaght.html] [accessed 5 November 2023]
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