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 Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:01 pm Post subject: first Nelson's monument |
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It would be quite impossible even to enumerate the many hundreds if not thousands of monuments which have been erected in different places through the country. A few only can be named.
Among them, as first in point of time, an Arch standing on a high hill in the park of Castle Townsend, near Cork, and having the following inscription on a marble tablet: "This Arch, the first monument erected to the memory of Nelson after the battle of Trafalgar, was sketched and planned by Captain Joshua Rowley Watson, R.N., and built by him and twelve hundred of the Sea Fencibles then under his command, assisted by eight masons. It was erected in five hours on 10th November 1805."
Many years ago this tablet was broken off, and has long since disappeared. The arch itself, too, hastily built of dry stones, is now little better than a ruin.
The Nelson Memorial, Nelson and his Companions in Arms, John Knox Laughton, 1896 |
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