Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, MONUMENT TO CAPT. KELLY

Name: MCARDLE, ROBERT
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, MONUMENT TO CAPT. KELLY
Date: 1868
Nature: 'In car park opposite St Patrick's Cathedral' . 41 ft high in granite and limestone, commemorating captain and crew of lifeboat who drowned in attempt to rescue the 'Mary Stoddart' in Dundalk Bay, Apr 1858. Not erected till 1879. Contractor: Pettigrew, Navan.
Refs: IB 10, 1 Sep 1868, 220; Tempest's Arrival (1909), 55, and Tempest's Arrival (1951)(B of I); P.J. Geraghty, A Heritage in Stone: the life and career of architect John Murray (1994), 51, who says competition was held in 1869.