Survey Data
Reg No
30411111
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Monument
Date
1830 - 1835
Coordinates
88168, 207919
Date Recorded
12/08/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding limestone cenotaph, erected at roadside in memory of Denis O'Donnell who died 1834 and his wife Ann and their children. Comprises rubble plinth with roughly dressed coping. Front face of cenotaph of dressed stone having two-tier arrangement of recessed inscribed limestone plaques. Monument set into karst limestone.
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.