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.
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