Arles village, Killabban civil parish, County Laois, Ireland

AARLES, a village, in that part of the parish of KILLEBAN which is in the barony of SLIEUMARGUE, QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 5 miles (N. W. by N.) from Carlow; containing 205 inhabitants.

This place, which contains about 40 houses, is situated on the road from Carlow to Maryborough (Portlaoise), and is of neat and pleasing appearance, The manufacture of tiles of excellent quality for roofing and flooring, and which were sent to Dublin and other places, where they were in much request, has been in a great degree superseded by the use of slates, and is now nearly extinct, the manufacture of yarn and linen is carried on to a small extent.

The principal object of interest is the mausoleum of the Grace family, occupying the site of the south wing of the parish church, which was called Grace's chapel; it is 21 feet in length and 16 feet in breadth, with a lofty gabled roof, terminating at each extremity in crooked pinnacles 31 feet in height; the lower story consists of a vault with a circular roof, designed for the reception of the remains of the deceased members of the family, above which is a vaulted apartment of the same dimensions with a groined roof, in which are placed monumental inscriptions, in blank windows on the exterior are also large tablets, formerly within the building that previously occupied the site of the present mausoleum ; the whole was erected in 1818, and the prevailing character is that of the later English style.

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