St. Maelruain's Losset

St. Maelruain's Losset is a wide and shallow granite stone trough or font, circa five feet in diameter, carved from granite boulder and located within the grounds of St. Maelruain's Church in Tallaght, Dublin. It represents one of the most significant surviving relics of the early medieval Tallaght Monastery, which was established in the eighth century—sources indicate either 755 or 769 AD—by S...