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Ballymore Castle — Laurencetown

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Ballymore Castle — Laurencetown
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Freestanding cut and carved limestone mausoleum, erected c.1870, having gabled open-sided upper chamber with stepped buttresses to corners, set on crypt with vaulted roof in form of truncated pyramid. Upper chamber comprising pitched cut-stone vaulted roof with cut-stone copings having carved treoil details to ends, and cross finial. Cut-stone walls with carved medallions to gables, Tudor arch openings with moulded surrounds to gables, that to west partly blocked, and moulded surrounds to shouldered square-headed openings to other elevations, all with cut-stone surrounds. Crypt roof has carved copings, square-headed door opening set in square-headed recess with corbels, and having cast-iron door. Cut-stone steps set in cut-stone apron to east end, descending to door. Mausoleum stands within feature known as 'The Lisheen', next to graveyard, latter having rubble limestone boundary walls with wrought-iron gate set to round-plan piers with domed caps, and having stile to one side.

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