Blackrath

In his notes on the church of Blackrath for the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1894, vol. 24: 192), J.G. Robertson writes: "The highly-finished font was long ago broken into two pretty equal parts, and when last seen by me one was used as a headstone. The remains of this font are deserving of the members study, as it (the font) was not only very neatly sculptured, but differs from any of the other fluted [in italics in the original] fonts to be found in the county, as it has human heads wrought in high relief on each corner. The rank vegetation concealed these remains so completely that they remained unknown to Mr. Graves and Mr. Prim until I informed them of my having discovered them. In one of Miller's sketch-books there is a drawing of a small font belonging (A.D. 1814) to Sheestown Church. This font had also human heads sculptured upon it."