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Carved font at Clonard, Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath.

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing. In the 1880s via Internet Archive Book Images Text near illustration - ... but the Christian temples are swept away — being represented only by three stones, the principal of which is a fine baptismal font, three feet high, of very hard gray limestone ; one of the finest and perhaps the oldest in Ireland. The pedestal is highly decorated with figures and foliage. The basin is octagonal, two feet and one inch in diameter externally, and the bowl, very deep, twenty inches across. The sculptures on the panels represent the Flight into Egypt, the Baptism in the Jordan, St. Peter, St. Finian, and figures of Augustinian monks ; which show that it was carved since the coming of De Lacy, on the rebuilding of the monastery in 1175. ... See - archive.org/details/picturesqueirela00sava/page/250/mode/...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Correction: the illustration and words (by William Wilde) date back to 1849. See - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clonard_Baptismal_Font_Wi... A modern photo (looks like it is now in fontastic condition) - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clonard_Church_of_St_Fini...
  • Wendy: said:
    great details -might be worth a detour!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    In September 2022 - youtu.be/PVleuc3K62I?t=340
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia It looks like new in the video!

Knock, knock, knocking on heavens door

Now there's a Steam Engine for ya!

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    3 July 1962 was a Tuesday ...
  • Foxglove said:
    it's smoking ! these must have presented as steaming smoking noisy monsters ! the man looked very focused on his levers and dials. top right there is a distinctive church tower ... any spotter experts? oh beachcomber, re your comment yesterday re / the upper deck, in some cities womenn were "not permitted" to climb the stairs to the upper deck !!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Railway in the background with an underpass, carriages parked on top - near a station...
  • Foxglove said:
    had a image Google, could be engineered by CJR Fyson Cambridge UK
  • beachcomber australia said:
    goo.gl/maps/iMTp3t7TDv8bGExr6 ?? Ed. Tar bitumen stains are still there!