Eugene O'Curry Monument

Detached two-bay single-storey forge, built c. 1930. Inscribed plaque added to accommodate use as memorial, 1986. Single-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, built c. 1820, to site. Pitched slate roof with stone chimneystack. Rubble stone walls. Timber lintel to opening having wrought-iron gate. Stone lintel and fixed timber window to gable. Rubble stone forge fireplace and cut stone trough on plinth to interior. Landscaped site. Inscribed plaque refers to Eugene O’Curry, 1796-1862, Gaelic scholar and first Professor of Irish History and Archaeology in the newly founded Catholic University in 1854. His lectures there were published as Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History (1861).