Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, DIAMOND HILL, MCCARTHY MEMORIAL
Name: | ATKINS, WILLIAM |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, DIAMOND HILL, MCCARTHY MEMORIAL |
Date: | 1859 |
Nature: | Campanile column of limestone inset with encaustic tiling. Panels at base originally inset with bronze plaques, showing events in Irish history connected with McCarthy family. Bronze plaques on upper tier said to represent 4 of the kings of Munster from whom McCarthys descended. Seemingly erected by Alex McCarthy. |
Refs: | JCHAS (1926), 103; Jeremy Williams, 'William Atkins 1812-1887, a forgotten Cork Pre-Raphaelite' in A. Bernelle (ed.), Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (1992), 246-7,249. |