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31307804
Representative view of monument.
Reg. No.31307804
Date1935 - 1945
Previous NameN/A
TownlandCLAGGARNAGH EAST [BURR. BY.]
CountyCounty Mayo
Coordinates110030, 286518
Categories of Special InterestARCHITECTURAL ARTISTIC HISTORICAL SOCIAL
RatingRegional
Original Usemonument
In Use Asmonument
 
Description
Freestanding cut-limestone Celtic High Cross-style monument, erected 1940. Road fronted with on unkempt grass verge with wrought iron railings to perimeter centred on flat iron Cross finial.

Appraisal
A monument erected as a testimony to Thomas O'Malley (d. 1921) and Thomas Lally (d. 1921), two volunteers killed during the so-called "Islandeady Ambush" (1921), regarded as an integral component of the twentieth-century commemorative architectural heritage of County Mayo.
 
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