Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, O'CONNELL SQUARE, O'CONNELL MONUMENT

Name: NEVILLE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, O'CONNELL SQUARE, O'CONNELL MONUMENT
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JN 'is credited...with the design of the O'Connell monument at Ennis...believed to be one of the first such monuments raised by nationalists to a public figure'.

Refs: Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007),268.

Name: CARROLL, WILLIAM [1]*
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, O'CONNELL SQUARE, O'CONNELL MONUMENT
Date: 1859-1863
Nature: Doric column 67 ft high erected by WC. FS laid Mar 1859. Last stone raised Feb 1863.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Apr 1859, 43; 5, 15 Feb 1863, 34; William Garner, Ennis: Architectural Heritage (An Foras Forbatha, 1981), 21,31(illus.)

Name: CAHILL, JAMES [1]*
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, O'CONNELL SQUARE, O'CONNELL MONUMENT
Date: 1861-1865
Nature: Statue on top of Doric column erected by William Carroll.
Refs: Model exh. RHA 1864, no.439; DB 6, 15 May 1864, 100; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 148; William Garner, Ennis: Architectural Heritage (An Foras Forbatha, 1981), 21,31(illus.);  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 182(illus.).