Overview
Sheahan Memorial — Burgh Quay is recorded as monument in Dublin. Freestanding monument, erected 1906, moved 2012, having square-plan carved limestone pedestal on stepped granite plinth. Round-headed limestone panels between polished granite columns, carved impost course and recessed arches to each face, memorial plaques with text in English and Irish uncial script.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Freestanding monument, erected 1906, moved 2012, having square-plan carved limestone pedestal on stepped granite plinth.
People and work
The saved account records: Round-headed limestone panels between polished granite columns, carved impost course and recessed arches to each face, memorial plaques with text in English and Irish uncial script.
How it changed
The saved account records: Fountain bowl to south elevation, carved crocketed pediments to each elevation, terminating in interlaced stops having shamrocks, polished granite roundels to apices of pediments.
What survives
The saved account records: Polished granite column with carved limestone string course having rope detail, scalloped capital, interlace frieze, pillow entablature with crown supporting celtic cross.
Why it mattered
Sheahan Memorial — Burgh Quay matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This monument was commissioned by the Mansion House Committee in 1906, designed by William Patrick O'Neill and built by Harrison & Sons, to commemorate the death of a Dublin Metropolitan Police Constable, Patrick Sheahan. The inscription reads: 'This memorial was erected in memory of Patrick Sheehan, a constable in the Dublin Metropolitan Police force who lost his life on the sixth day of May 1905 in a noble and self-sacrificing effort to rescue John Fleming who had in the discharge of his duties descended the main sewer close by this spot and was overcome by sewer gas. It was also intended to commemorate the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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