A Gothic octagonal shrine built after a competition in 1877 to the design of Rawson Carroll by Lady Emma de Vesci in rememberance of her late husband Tomas the 3rd Viscount. The following is a description of the fountain taken from the Leinster Express, September 21st 1878. “The design of the memorial – a drinking fountain – is Gothic. The first storey stands on a raised platform of cut stone, with steps. It is square in plan with buttresses at each angle and furnished at the top by pinnacles with beautifully carved finials. Each side has a trefoil-headed panel with deeply cut mouldings and polished limestone shafts. Immediately above the lower storey the angles of the square are cut off to form an octagon having richly panelled band course on a base for the upper part. This storey is open with eight limestone pillars, surrounding a central one, with moulded bases and carved tops, from which spring pointed and moulded arches, forming the outer part and corbelled groining connected with the central pillar. Above these arches is a carved cornice, from which rises an octagon spire, ornamented by carved bands of Portland stone, forming an exquisite contrast with the granite in the main building. At the upper part there are four open gablets, and the whole is finished with a wrought iron terminal of a coronet form. In one of the niches of the ground storey (that facing the town) is the fountain; the niche facing the Durrow road bears a shield, with the de Vesci arms; while that facing the station has the inscription recording the object for which the memorial is erected.