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Cassidy Monument — Glasnevin Cemetery

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Cassidy Monument — Glasnevin Cemetery
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Freestanding three-stage Gothic Revival funerary monument over vault, erected c. 1870. Lowest stage has rectangular base and battered plinth with shallow relief cusped and geometric banding. Gableted second stage having raked crocketed cornice, studded quatrefoils to pedestal, spandrels and apexes, pointed-arch recesses to each elevation, each having marble panel with roundel bearing cross and with inscription to west, corner piers with stiff-leaf capitals and engaged polished pink granite half-shafts, moulded archivolts having carved foliate banding. Third stage comprises octagonal-plan pinnacle on octagonal base having cusped and crocketed arcaded lantern with cusped gablets and supported by pink granite columns; and with wrought-iron cross final. Vault entrance to west side accessed by flight of stone steps, with limestone slab over vault. Wrought-iron railings, having tendrils and leaves. Located on corner plot at east side of Glasnevin Cemetery.

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