Survey Data
Reg No
31204025
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Monument
In Use As
Monument
Date
1900 - 1905
Coordinates
124260, 318838
Date Recorded
06/07/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding monument, designed 1901; erected 1901. Repositioned, 1968. Repositioned, 1983. Street fronted on a corner site on limestone flagged footpath.
Appraisal
A polychromatic monument 'erected by public subscription…to the memory of GEORGE JAMES VAUGHAN JACKSON [1860-98] of Carramore [sic; see 31303902]' representing an important component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Ballina. NOTE: Erected by Scott and Rae (established 1881) of Glasgow following the rejection of a design for a monument (1899) by C.W. Harrison and Sons (closed 1972) of Great Brunswick Street [Pearse Street], Dublin.