Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Officer in the Royal Navy and amateur artist.   Captian Joshua Rowley Watson designed and supervised the erection of an arch to the memory of Nelson on a headland at Castletownshend, Co. Cork, in 1805, while he was commanding the Sea Fencibles in the area. The arch was said to have been the first monument erected in Nelson's memory and to have been built of dry stone in a single day.(1)   Watson later travelled in the United States;  his diaries and skechbook of the visit were published in 1997.(2)

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(1) Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal II (1839), 198; JCHAS (1897), 228.
(2) Kathleen A. Foster, Captain Watson's travels in America.  The sketchbook and diaries of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1772-1818 (University of Philadelphia Press, 1997).   This  includes a detailed biography of Watson.


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Building: CO. CORK, CASTLETOWNSEND, NELSON MONUMENT
Date: 1805
Nature: Nelson monument in form of an arch erected in 5 hours by Capt. Watson, Commander of the Sea Fencibles, and 1,200 of his men on a hill in Castle Townshend demesne, 10 Nov 1805.
Refs: Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal II (1839), 198; JCHAS (1897), 228.

Building: CO. CORK, CASTLETOWNSEND, NELSON MONUMENT
Date: 1805
Nature: Nelson monument in form of an arch erected in 5 hours by Capt. Watson, Commander of the Sea Fencibles, and 1,200 of his men on a hill in Castle Townshend demesne, 10 Nov 1805.
Refs: Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal II (1839), 198; JCHAS (1897), 228.