Survey Data
Reg No
30411010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Monument
Date
1845 - 1850
Coordinates
84180, 210270
Date Recorded
11/08/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding limestone cenotaph, erected c.1846, now having national school built adjacent, and having dedication to Ann Dirrane who died 1846. Comprises rubble plinth with roughly dressed coping stone to front. Front face, with high base, of dressed stone with two-tier arrangement of recessed inscribed limestone plaques, and with quarter-arc of sun's rays to upper corners of upper plaques.
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.