monument — Main Street

The saved account records: Wall-mounted memorial monument, erected c. 1920, comprising carved limestone surround supporting carved limestone pediment over with carved military motif (crossed rifles and flags) with Crown motif over to tympanum, and having pink granite memorial plaque listing names of local military personnel who died in World War 1.

The saved account records: Inscription above plaque reading ‘In Proud and Grateful Commemoration’ and below plaque reading ‘Erected By Friends and Neighbours of the Gallant Men Whose Names Are Inscribed On This Memorial’.

The saved account records: Set into rubble stone wall terminated to either side by piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over.

The saved account records: Single-storey outbuilding to the rear (north).

monument — Main Street matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This fine classical-style memorial monument, of high artistic merit, commemorates local men who were killed in action during World War 1 (1914 – 1918). An inscription records that it was erected by friends and neighbours of the seventeen men listed on the central memorial tablet. Some of the names listed were members of important Donegal families including the Wray and Steward families, while the name given highest billing on the tablet, a Capt. Norman Leslie, was probably a member of the Leslie family who were the proprietors/landlords of Pettigoe at the time of erection and who occasionally resided at the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.