Mausoleum in Ballingaddy North, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Mausoleum in Ballingaddy North wears the Walsh coat of arms above a perforated iron door: grand enough to demand your family connections, draughty enough to admit every breeze without checking.

Attached single-bay single-storey gable-fronted mausoleum, dated 1846, on a square plan. Limestone flagged roof with ridge tiles. Snecked limestone walls on cut-limestone chamfered plinth with cut-limestone chamfered quoins to corners. Pointed segmental-headed door opening below coat of arms, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing perforated iron door. Set in graveyard.

A mausoleum adjoining the ruins of the medieval Ballingaddy Church [SMR LI048-026001-]. The compact square plan, the construction in a blue-grey limestone, the neo-Gothic pointed door opening and the gabled roofline all contribute to its architectural interest. The gable front carries the arms of the Walsh family of Kilmallock while a pair of weathered plaques commemorate Stephen Barry Walsh (d. 1861) and Catherine Barry Walsh (d. 1874).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21904806

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