Rossmore Castle — TULLYARD

Freestanding mausoleum, built c.1876, located in south of Rossmore Castle, now vacant. Square plan, with circular apse-end to north elevation, supporting two-stage tower. Pitched terracotta-shingle sprocketed roof with terracotta ridge tiles, timber panelled bargeboards and overhung apex to gable to south, supported on curved timber brackets with moulded cornice and smooth rendered pediment. Skirt hipped roof against visible sections of north gable. Stone domical cap to tower, having carved fleury cross finial. Ashlar limestone walls to tower to north elevation, having gable-fronted projection with cross finial and pointed hood-moulding to window opening, extending as impost course around tower. Projection supported below by corbels. Coursed, squared and dressed stone wall to main block, with rusticated stepped plinth. Walls to east, south, and west elevations having recessed panels. Timber bellcote to apex of gable of south elevation supported by timber brackets with decorative carved bargeboard to gable. Pointed-arch window opening to tower, containing stone mullioned tripartite Y-tracery window. Pointed-arch door opening with moulded recessed door surround having engaged Doric-style pillars and pilasters. Carved double-leaf timber door with latticed openwork, recessed panels, and cast-iron strap hinges. Opening onto two limestone steps and limestone platform. Brick walls to interior, mosaic floor to central nave with double moulded brick pointed arcade to east and west, ornate cast-iron screens between piers. Located on height in former quarry, set in graveyard and surrounded by low stepped limestone plinth wall with pointed cast-iron railings. Cast-iron pedestrian gate, flanked by high coursed rubble limestone wall, to boundary wall to south-east.