Birr’s Cumberland Column, erected in 1747 to honour the Duke of Cumberland’s Culloden triumph, was once crowned with a Roman-style statue and is Ireland’s oldest pillar. Parsons and Chearnley dreamed of Gothic grandeur, but only the column stands.
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