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Boland Mausoleum — Glasnevin Cemetery

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Boland Mausoleum — Glasnevin Cemetery
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Freestanding ashlar limestone Gothic Revival cruciform-plan mausoleum with belfry tower, dated 1871, having canted transepts and apse. Steeply pitched fishscale-banded limestone roof with wrought-iron cresting; tower has fishscale-banded spire with carved cross finial. Ashlar limestone walling with gabled offset corner buttresses with gabled tops, eaves having crocketed frieze and cusped Gothic parapet. Pointed lancet window openings to transepts and apse, having hood-mouldings with foliate stops, shafts, continuous splayed sill course, and replacement obscured glazing. Paired blind cusped lancet openings to east, north and south (check) elevations, with crocketed gabled hood-mouldings with finials superimposed on recessed responds having carved foliate and floriate heads carried on red marble shaft. Belfry having embellished traceried openings and square-plan corner piers with gablets to bases and supporting green marble colonnettes with vegetal capitals. Pointed-arch doorway to front (east), having triple-order moulded limestone surround with red marble half-shafts on plinths, foliate carved head and double-leaf fretted cast-iron door. Accessed by two stone steps; shield to tympanum with raised lettering 'Boland AD 1871'. Decorative cast-iron railings on limestone plinth, with similar double-leaf gate. Located on perimeter of O'Connell Monument, over vault having paired pointed-arch doorways and squared limestone rubble walling accessed from recessed street of vaults.

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