Old Connaught / Connough nr. Bray

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14292CON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: late-medieval(?) church probably abandoned by mid-17thC
Church Address: Old Connaught, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Site Location: Dublin, Leinster, Republic of Ireland, Europe
Directions to Site: The old village was located 1-2 km from Bray, itself 20 km S of Dublin city
Font Notes:
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, vol. 1: 491 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=9rblf03SdkYC&pg=RA1-PA425&lpg=RA1-PA425&dq=baptismal+Fonts+Ireland&source=bl&ots=tjlG9VBgG0&sig=j31F11YE_kthumcueOp4sEWtarg&hl=en&ei=9pCpSfSgGqbAMpXs_ekC&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPR7,M1] [accessed 28 February 2009]