Survey Data
Reg No
31307804
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Monument
In Use As
Monument
Date
1935 - 1945
Coordinates
110030, 286518
Date Recorded
14/01/2013
Date Updated
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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.