Old Connaught / Connough nr. Bray

INFORMATION

FontID: 14292CON
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Dublin, Leinster
Directions to Site: The old village was located 1-2 km from Bray
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , [composite]
In the avenue of Old Connaught, nearly opposite the Walcot-lodge, stands a small ivy-clad chapel in the midst of a favourite cemetery; and within the wall of Mr. Westby's demesne, on the left side of the sequestered road which leads from Old Connaught village to the mansion of Fassaroe stand [...] an ingeniously executed baptismal font on an elevated pedestal of neat modern workmanship".

REFERENCES

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, adapted to the new Poor-Law, franchise, municipal and ecclesiastical arrangements, and compiled with a special reference to the lines of railroad an canal communication, as existing in 1844-45 [...], Dublin, London, and Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co., 1846