Historic building in Friarsquarter West, County Mayo

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What is recorded here

Wall-mounted cut-limestone coat-of-arms, dated 1858. Set in limestone ashlar wall having lichen-covered cut-limestone rounded coping.

A Knox family coat-of-arms of undetermined provenance representing an intriguing component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of Ballinrobe.

Photo credits

Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Maker not stated on source page, de.pinterest.com
Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
Ballinrobe GAA Club; individual photographer not stated, www.ballinrobegaaclub.com

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