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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Nature: | 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.). |