Goold Monument, County Limerick

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Freestanding high cross style monument, dated 1863, commemorating various members of the Goold family. Tooled limestone high cross (approximately 4 m high) mounted on tooled limestone plinth above tooled limestone stepped plinth. Tooled panels with Celtic interlace to cross and shaft with decorative bosses to cross. Tooled stylised dog tooth motifs to ring of cross. Tooled shamrock motifs to intersections of cross. Recessed inscribed panels to plinth. Carved rope motifs to corners and surrounds of panels. Recent concrete block enclosing walls with render coping. Tooled limestone plaque to western enclosing wall. Tooled limestone square-profile piers to entrance having chamfered corners, pitched caps and trefoil-headed motifs to gables with wrought-iron gate.

This dramatic monument was designed by the architect William Fogerty (c.1833-78): Fogerty was also responsible for the design of the adjacent Athea Church (1858-9) which no longer survives. Utilising a strong symbol of Irish history, the Irish High Cross, it makes an ideal subject for a monument with various forms of interlacing and rope motifs, adding not only artistic interest, but also demonstrating the skill of nineteenth-century stone masons. The monument commemorates Thomas F. Goold who was a benevolent landlord at the time of the Great Famine and who refused to evict tenants who were unable to pay the rent.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21834001

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