The Seymour Mausoleum 1860 - 1880

The Seymour mausoleum 1860 - 1880

This limestone mausoleum was erected by the Seymour family of Ballymore Castle Laurencetown. The family burial chamber is accessed by a series of steps down to a vault with a strong iron door. The mausoleum is built in an Early English style of Gothic. A small graveyard lies to the side and is known as Lisheen graveyard. It is contained within a circular embanked enclosure. The site can be reached via a gravelled roadway with an entrance gate at the Kiltormer end of the village.
Sourced from Christy Cunniffe



The following was sourced from visit Galway website

The family mausoleum of the Seymours, who acquired Ballymore Castle and its lands around 1700 and remained there until the early twentieth century.

The cut and carved limestone shows both the skill of nineteenth-century craftsmen and the wealth and status of the Seymour family who commissioned the monument.

Situated beside a graveyard in a small enclosure known as the ‘Lisheen’ which is thought to have been used for burials before the graveyard walls were constructed.

The following was sourced from National Iventory of Architectural Heritage

Freestanding cut and carved limestone mausoleum, erected c.1870, having gabled open-sided upper chamber with stepped buttresses to corners, set on crypt with vaulted roof in form of truncated pyramid. Upper chamber comprising pitched cut-stone vaulted roof with cut-stone copings having carved treoil details to ends, and cross finial. Cut-stone walls with carved medallions to gables, Tudor arch openings with moulded surrounds to gables, that to west partly blocked, and moulded surrounds to shouldered square-headed openings to other elevations, all with cut-stone surrounds. Crypt roof has carved copings, square-headed door opening set in square-headed recess with corbels, and having cast-iron door. Cut-stone steps set in cut-stone apron to east end, descending to door. Mausoleum stands within feature known as 'The Lisheen', next to graveyard, latter having rubble limestone boundary walls with wrought-iron gate set to round-plan piers with domed caps, and having stile to one side.
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