Survey Data
Reg No
41308066
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Mausoleum
In Use As
Mausoleum
Date
1830 - 1885
Coordinates
282924, 319508
Date Recorded
01/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Partly subterranean crypt, dated 1880, but possibly incorporating earlier monument of c.1834, when Thomas Andrew, 11th Lord Blayney, whose remains are apparently interred there, died. Roughly squared limestone walls and limestone flag roof. Passageway with rubble limestone retaining walls to front of mausoleum, having square brick piers to wrought-iron pedestrian gate, monument and passage set into cairn-like mound. Inscribed limestone plaque with top corners having cavetto chamfers, fixed to west end of mausoleum. Plaque reads 'This vault contains the bodies of Thomas Andrew, eleventh Lord Blayney, and some other members of the Blayney family AD 1880'. Table-top tomb to south-east. Sited to northern end of Saint Maeldoid's churchyard.
Appraisal
This large and impressively landscaped mausoleum was built of traditional memorial materials without opulent polished or imported stone. It commemorates the individual who, during his fifty years at the helm of the Blayney Estate had the greatest impact on the built heritage of Castleblayney, a large proportion of the architecturally significant private, civic and estate structures originating at this time.