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Rubble limestone wall, built 1854, incorporating doorways, windows and plaques from late-medieval house of Lynch family. Concrete side supports added 1978. Gabled plaque over one doorway has sculpted skull and cross bones and inscription 'remember deathe vaniti of vaniti & all is but vaniti' and date '1624'. Rectangular limestone panel above bearing inscription 'This ancient memorial of the stern and unbending justice of the chief magistrate of this city, James Lynch Fitzstephen, elected mayor A.D. 1493, who condemned and executed his own guilty son Walter on this spot, has been restored to this its ancient site A.D. 1854 with the approval of the Town Commissioners by their chairman, V. Revd. Peter Daly, P.P. & Vicar of St. Nicholas'. Carved panel bearing arms of Lynch family impaled with those of Browne and with initials 'C…' and 'EB' inset over doorway to south. Square-headed single and double-light window openings having limestone sills, mullions and block-and-start surrounds. Pointed arch doorways, now blocked, having tooled chamfered surrounds.
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