Firebacks

Description: Rectangular shape; twisted rope edging; top centre, a lion passant on the right and a lion passant guardant sinister on the left; in each top corner, a four-petalled Tudor rose; below each rose, two 'imps', one with right arm raised, the other with both arms lowered, the pair on the left facing to the right and the pair on the right facing to the left; below each lion, a crowned, four-petalled Tudor rose.

Notes: A spurious fireback based on, and possibly adapted from, a 16th century back, this and its copies include remodelled rope edging, lions and 'imp' figures, all probably dating from the restoration of Bunratty Castle in the 1960s.

Copies of this fireback are known.