Description of the Memorial.
Designer—R. Caulfeild Orpen, Esq., B.A., F.R.I.A.I., 13 South Frederick Street, Dublin.
Executants—Messrs C. W. Harrison & Sons, 178 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin.
The Memorial consists of three stone seats, forming a triangle, set on a circular platform, reached by three broad circular steps. Above the backs of the seats, and filling the space which they enclose, rises a triangular block of masonry having sunk panels on each of its faces, the whole being surmounted by a carved stone cornice.
The work is executed throughout in fine selected Irish limestone from the Stradbally quarries.
The height of the entire structure is fifteen feet, and the sides of the triangle are eight feet.
The front panel on the triangle bears a female figure executed in bronze in relief. The figure was designed and modelled by Miss Beatrice Elvery, of Dublin, who also made the models for the bronze wreaths and escutcheons which surround the Memorial immediately below the carved stone cornice; the escutcheons show the regimental badges. The two side panels on the triangle, which correspond in size with the front panel, are filled with the roll of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men who fell in the Campaign.
On the panels behind the three seats the following inscriptions are placed:—
Front—
SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1902. TO THE MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS,
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, AND MEN OF THE ROYAL IRISH
REGIMENT WHO WERE KILLED IN ACTION AND DIED OF WOUNDS
OR DISEASE DURING THE CAMPAIGN.