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The Holy Water or Baptismal Font. 
Almost simultaneously with the transference from Fahan of the 
Bell of St. Mura, the Holy Water or Baptismal Font belonging to the 
abbey, which had been held carefully as an heirloom, and preserved 
by a neighbouring family, was entrusted to the care of the late Father 
Porter, P.P. of Malin in Inis-owen, and was by him placed in the 
Catholic church of Lag, near Malin, where it is still preserved. The 
Font is 20 inches in diameter, 15 inches deep, and cut hexagonally. 
The ‘‘Stoup” is 12 inches in diameter and 6 inches deep, and has a 
hole 1 inch in diameter in the bottom of the bowl; the stone is of 
native granite.’ 
The Ancient Table Cross.® 
The only other visible “‘ relique”’ which the fury of the times has 
suffered to remain near the precincts of this venerable site is a very 
fine specimen of the Ancient Table Cross of Ireland; it stands to the 
right of the ruins in the graveyard, and adjoins the site of the abbey. 
The interlacing of the ribbon tracery serves to delineate the outlines 
of the cross, in addition to the slight projecting arms on both sides of 
the stone (a photograph of which the writer has recently presented to 
the Academy); the pattern of the tracery is easily discernible, not- 
withstanding centuries of exposure to the rude blasts of a northern 
clime, and the author is confident that an examination of its details 
will evoke the admiration of every lover of Irish art. A very chaste 
fac-simile of this cross has been lately executed by Mr. Walter Doolin 
of Westland-row, Dublin, under the direction of the author, for the 
purpose of being placed by his relatives at Letterkenny, over the 
remains of the late Bishop of Raphoe, the Most Rev. James 
M ‘Devitt. 
A very fine Greek cross 16 inches by 14 inches, and raised 
within a mariginal border, is preserved and built into the boun- 
dary wall facing the public road on the Derry side of the gate- 
way. This cross may have been taken from the walls of the abbey 
itself, where it might have formed part of a mural tablet, which had 
been erected to the memory of some person of distinction. Local 
tradition says that this Table Cross formed the headstone of the 
graves of several Catholic Bishops, and that it marks the site of the 
grave of St. Mura, the founder of the abbey. Be that as it may, 
7 The author is indebted for the measurements and description of the ‘‘ Font’’ 
to Mr. P. M‘Laughlin of Glack-na-brad, near Malin. 
8 See Photographs in the Academy’s Museum. 
’ An inscription in Irish characters was in former ages cut on the sides or edges 
of the cross, but time has almost entirely obliterated it; a rubbing of what remains 
has been obtained and submitted to Professor O’ Looney, Catholic University, who 
was unable from its indistinctness to deduce therefrom a definite reading. 
