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Charles McGauran Monument — Glasnevin Cemetery

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Charles McGauran Monument — Glasnevin Cemetery
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Freestanding High Gothic funerary monument, dated 1881, comprising white marble sarcophagus on stepped limestone plinth over granite base, with canopy roof above. Canopy is pitched limestone with cruciform pole-moulded ridge having carved cross final with marble hub; gable ends have cusped pointed arches, those to 'transepts' having marble hubs to blind quatrefoils; whole supported on pink granite columns having stiff-leaf capitals and moulded bases. Pole-moulding and Gothic panels with trefoil detail to sides of plinth, with marble studs and cavetto-moulding below. Inscription to sarcophagus reads ''Pray for the repose of the soul of Mr Charles McGauran of Fownes Street. Residence Chelmsford Road, Leeson Park. 5th April 1881 aged 61 years'. Set in Glasnevin Cemetery, south of O'Connell Circle.

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