Survey Data

Reg No

15703229


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social


Original Use

Monument


In Use As

Monument


Date

1785 - 1790


Coordinates

299023, 127876


Date Recorded

10/01/2007


Date Updated

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Description

Freestanding cut-granite monument, erected 1786, on a square plan. Set on creeper- or ivy-covered outcrop in grounds shared with Lonsdale.

Appraisal

A monument erected by Reverend Christopher Harvey DD (1740-96) to commemorate 'GENERAL GEORGE OGLE [1742-1814] and the INDEPENDENT VOLUNTEERS of IRELAND who in the face of immediate danger by the exercise of every Patriotic Virtue GAVE PEACE and FREEDOM to their oppressed country'.