The Rt Hon. William Conolly and his wife Katherine Conolly.
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The Irish Aesthete.
I highly recommend this blog to anyone interested in the culture of Ireland, in particular its architecture in the past and in many places its disintegration in the present.
'In August 1736 the Dublin Gazette reported, 'On Friday last two
curious fine monuments, lately finished by Mr Carter near Hyde Park
Corner, were put on board a ship in the river in order to be carried to
Ireland, to be erected in the church of Castletown near Dublin, to the
memory of the Rt. Hon. William Conolly Esq., Late Speaker to the House
of Commons, and his lady.' The two life-sized figures of William and
Katherine Conolly were commissioned by the latter after her husband's
death in 1729 from London-sculptor Thomas Carter (although it has been
proposed that Mrs Conolly's likeness may be from the hand of his son,
Thomas Carter Junior). Originally they formed part of a larger monument
in a mausoleum attached to the church in nearby Celbridge but in recent
decades this fell into disrepair and in 1993 the figures were removed to
Castletown where they can be found facing each other in a ground floor
passage behind the main staircase'.
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