1861 – Featherstone Memorial, Ardagh, Co. Longford

Architect: Rawson Carroll

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Constructed as a clocktower and memorial to Sir Ralph Featherstone by his widow Elizabeth.A rdagh is a small designed estate village, laid out around a small village green with the Featherston memorial overlooking the green. The memorial and cottages were all largely designed by the architect James Rawson Carroll, (1830 – 1911).

Photograph courtesy, and copyright of Keith J. Allen.