Portland Stone Tomb
Created by Earley and Powells (later Earley and Co.)
Date: 15 May 1861
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: funerary equipment
Object type: tomb
Material: stone - limestone - portland stone
Technique: carved
Description: in memory of Late Very Reverend W. Renehan
Notes: Costs:
Total masoning £17 2s. 10d.
Stone 52 ft 2 in £8 12s. 6d.
Limestone steps £0 13s. 4d.
Hauling to works £0 3s. 4d.
Carriage of stone £0 7s. 4d.
Carriage to Maynooth £2 5s. 4d.
Travelling Expenses, TE £0 15s. 0d.
Jopling [perhaps employee as appears in other costings lists as 'Jopling's time] £0 6s. 10d.
Fixing £2 6s. 10d.
Cement, lead etc £0 10s. 0d.
Lettering and making carton £5 10s. 0d.
Hanagan 12 days [carver?] £3 10s. 0d.
Hanagan's expenses £0 16s. 3d.
expenses £1 10s. 5d.
total £43 2s. 6d.
charged £56 10s. 0d.
Locations of Works
Located at Maynooth Ireland | View on map
cemetery of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Makers, Owners and Patrons
Commissioned by McCarthy
15 May 1861
£56 10s.
commissioned by Reverend McCarthy
Sources
Earley and Company (Ecclesiastical Decorators) Documentation: Box 1 of 7 Earley and Company Documentation
ECD/5, ledger, p. 29, and corresponding entry in ECD/3, p. 20
Citing this record
'Portland Stone Tomb', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1214309407, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
