Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Monumental structure
Raheens (carra By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheens (carra By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Obelisk
- Latest-edition OS map
- Monument
- Coordinates
- 53.84377, -9.35547
- SMR number
- MA078-009----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located in what was formerly the estate of Raheens House, the principal seat of the Browne family. Tall, obelisk-type monument, built of mortared stone, erected in the early 19th-century by Dodwell Browne, Esq., in memory of his wife. Roughly centrally placed on the WSW face is a stone plaque featuring a carving of a woman’s head in profile above which is the inscription 'Maria O Donel Browne'. Below this is another plaque with the inscription "A Maria et a l'amour par son cher epoux Dodwell 1809". At the foot of the monument is an inscription in old Irish script below which is written 'This Cenotaph was built in memorial of Maria Browne O Donel 2d. Daughter of Sir Neal O Donel'. On the ESE face there is plaque with the inscription 'To Gaiety And Innocence'.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 July 2015
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.