Shrine in Ardgraigue, County Galway

What is recorded here

Shrine in Ardgraigue gives Mary a little stone place directly opposite the church. That’s the parish idea of a holiday: move across the road and we’ll shout if we need you.

Freestanding gabled limestone Marian shrine, erected c.1930. Rendered roof with decorative cast-iron cross finial and carved eaves course. Snecked walls to base with carved cornice, coursed walls to gable. Rubble walls to rear (south) face. Carved surround to round-headed niche, with rendered soffit, and carved marble life-sized statue of Virgin Mary. Situated opposite church. Dressed stone boundary walls to each side with rendered copings.

The simple geometric forms of this shrine combine to make a pleasing structure. The statue is of artistic interest, with well carved draperies. A notable landmark on the roadscape, it makes an interesting small ecclesiastical group with the church on the opposite side of the road.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30410707

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