Saggart / Tasagart / Newtown

INFORMATION

FontID: 09304SAG
Church/Chapel: Chapel on the lands of Newtown [in ruins]
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Dublin, Leinster
Directions to Site: Saggart is located on the N-82, just outside Dublin, on the SW
Font Location in Church: Reported ca. 1837 in the grounds corresponding to the graveyard
Century and Period: , Medieval
Ball (1902-1920, vol. 3, chapter 8) wrote about two chapels within the parish of Saggart: "One of these was on the lands of Newtown, of which remains, including a font, were found in 1837 by Mr. Eugene O'Curry. Its site is marked on the ordnance map as a graveyard." Ball (ibid.) refers also to a nearby font at Rathccole [cf. Index entry], "now to be seen". [NB{ a transcription of Ball's text is available at K. Finlay's site http://indigo.ie/~kfinaly/ball1-6/Ball3/ball3.8.htm]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Ball, Francis Elrington, A History of County Dublin: the People, Parishes and Antiquities from the Earliest Times to the Close of the 16th Century, Dublin: A. Thom, 1902-1920