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Holy Water Font plus bottle of Holy Water

"This was the Holy Water font and water used by my father Joe Carroll of Dollymount, Clontarf since the 1950s. He died in July 1999. The font hung on the wall just inside the front door and as adult children and parents ourselves, we ran the gauntlet of a good dousing on our exit from the house, with my father muttering for example "once a parent always a parent!" I can state with certainty that this was in use by him right up to the day he died, as I was the last person to visit him on the night he died peacefully in his bed, after a long life well lived."

Submitted by: Deirdre Carroll