An Anonymous and most Unusual Monument to Marcus Beresford
and Catherine Baroness le Poer.
c.1770.
in the Church at Clonagam, County Waterford, Ireland.
I have taken the liberty of lifting these photographs from the very excellent blog
The Irish Aesthete
To the Memory of Marcus Beresford, Earl, and Viscount
of Tyrone, Baron Beresford, and Baronet who departed this life on the 4th of
April 1763 in the 69th year of his Age, and of Catherine, Baroness Le Poer in
Fee, his Countess, Daughter and Heiress to James Power, Earl of Tyrone,
Viscount Decies, and Baron Le Poer, who dyed in the 68th year of her Age on the
16th of July 1769 this Monument is Erected by their Son, George de la Poer
Beresford, Marquis of Waterford, in Testimony of his Duty, Gratitude and
Affection.
In front of a polished limestone pyramid, the white marble monument
features portrait busts of the couple, similar to those seen in Imperial Roman
tombs,
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