Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.