Octagonal mausoleum comprising steeply sloping stone roof with octagonal lantern and spire. Squared-and-snecked rock-faced limestone walls having ashlar plinth course, string course and eaves course. Paired trefoil-headed window opes to lower drum with trefoil-headed louvered opes to lantern (all sides). Arched doorway to principal elevation within gothic door surround or receding orders having coat of arms to tympanum. Set within the Headfort Demesne forming an eye-catcher in the landscape.
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Gothic Revival
Protected Structure (Republic of Ireland)
1869
Built to house the remains of Thomas Taylor, the second Marquis of Headfort to designs by James Frankllin Fuller.
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Lotts Architecture & Urbanism (2009). Headfort Demesne, Co. Meath Architectural Conservation Area Statement of Character: Meath County Council.
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Mausoleum Wood
Headfort
Headfort Demesne
Kells
County Meath
Republic of Ireland