Viscount de Vesci Monument, County Laois

What is recorded here

Viscount de Vesci Monument in Rathmoyle has four lion heads serving as water spouts. King of the beasts, reduced to a tap. And there are four of them, so they can’t even comfort themselves that it’s a management position.

Freestanding limestone monument, erected 1855, comprising rusticated pedestal on a stepped base having four lion mask water spouts and finial over. Bronze lettering to east face reads : "Erected in memory/of/John 2nd Viscount de Vesci/by/public subscription/AD/1855"

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12900703

This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.

Places near here

Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Peter Clarke at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC0
Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Hello, I am Bruce on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Liam Hughes from Milwaukee, WI, USA, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
No machine-readable author provided. GunnerPoulsen~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0