Survey Data
Reg No
30411002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Monument
Date
1815 - 1825
Coordinates
80659, 212107
Date Recorded
12/08/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding limestone cenotaph, erected c.1820, set at roadside, with dedication to Patrick Folan who died 1819. Comprises rubble plinth with roughly dressed coping surmounted by cross finial having round terminals and inscribed cross and IHS motif. Front face of dressed stone having two-tier arrangement of recessed inscribed limestone plaques, latter having chevron detail to margin, and both with quarter-arc of sun's rays to corners.
Appraisal
This cenotaph is one of a remarkable series of distinctive memorials on Árainn, erected to the memory of local individuals who died in the nineteenth century. The combination of rubble limestone walling and inscribed plaques provides an interesting textural contrast.