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Located on rock outcrop at the SW foothills of Carrickbyrne Hill. A Corinthian column (H 28.75m) of Wicklow granite was erected in 1839 41 by Gerard Robert Browne Clayton to a design by Thomas Cobden based on Ptolemy’s column in Alexandria, Egypt, to commemorate the battle of Alexandria (21 03 1801), in which Napoleon…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX035-022
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- liam murphy, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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