The Butcher’s Column – Birr, County Offaly

The Butcher’s Column – Birr, County Offaly

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. Become a member of...