Survey Data
Reg No
21522008
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Mausoleum
In Use As
Mausoleum
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
158848, 156127
Date Recorded
01/09/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached limestone monument, erected c. 1890, as a faux church ruin. It forms one gabled elevation returning to form side elevations which give the appearance of having collapsed. Limestone Celtic cross surmounts gable punctured by a pointed arched window opening with plain limestone Y-tracery and splayed reveals. Plot demarcated by limestone plinth wall supporting cast-iron rail posts and wrought-iron horizontal rails. Multiple grave markers and Celtic cross grave marker within the plot. All this allegory is evoked in literary form on a marble plaque which reads: THE CELTIC CROSS RAISE OVER ME. AND THE IVY AROUND IT TWINE. IT WILL TELL TO THE LAND THAT BORE ME. THAT THE ANCIENT FAITH WAS MINE. AND THOUGH FALLEN AND LOW FOUND I. ALL TRAMPLED AND POOR AND LONE. YET MY HEART GREW THE CLOSER AROUND IT LIKE THE IVY AROUND THAT STONE.
Appraisal
Probably the most thought provoking monument within the cemetery for its interpretation of the origins of the Irish Christian faith. This monument is conceived out of the symbolism and romanticism which thrived in aesthete and political circles at the fin de siecle.