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mausoleum — James's Street

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mausoleum — James's Street
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Freestanding single-bay two-stage mausoleum, c.1825, with single-bay single-storey lean-to flanking bays. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles having finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron brackets. Lean-to concrete roof to flanking bay to left behind parapet with flight of steps surmounting flanking bay to right behind parapet. Painted rendered walls with inscribed cut-stone plaque to first stage, grouped (three-part arrangement) trefoil-headed inscribed cut-stone plaques to second stage on cut-stone sill, grouped (three-part arrangement) trefoil-headed panels to flanking bay to left, painted rendered panelled piers to corners to flanking bays, and rendered coping to parapets. Pointed-arch blind door opening to first stage with moulded cut-limestone surround having cross finial to apex. Square-headed blind door openings to top stage. Set back from road in grounds originally shared with Kilkenny Presentation Convent abutting section of unpainted roughcast city wall having sections of painted render over.

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