Landmarks: Cracked pillar divides community in Wexford

The Sunday Times

Pompey's column, a monumental victory pillar incorporating 25 metres of red Aswan granite, dominates the palm-flecked skyline of ancient Alexandria in Egypt... and a field on the way to New Ross, in Co Wexford. Perhaps the most unlikely landmark in rural Ireland, Wexford's copy of the Egyptian monument was commissioned in 1817 by a local landlord, General Robert Browne Clayton, after he took part in the Battle of Alexandria in 1801.

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