A life-size marble figure of Christ the King, erected in Market Square, Gort, Co. Galway, in the early 1930s. The statue was commissioned for a prominent position in the town square and is executed in marble — demonstrating Power’s sustained commitment to carved stone rather than cast bronze for his most significant devotional works.
The statue underwent a major restoration in 2024, bringing renewed attention to the work and confirming its place as one of the more visible Power commissions in Connacht.
Gort, a small market town in south Co. Galway, was at the heart of the literary landscape Power inhabited — it was near Coole Park, the estate of Lady Augusta Gregory, and Thoor Ballylee, W.B. Yeats’s tower. Power made his bronze portrait of Yeats in 1939. The Gort commission places his religious work within the same Connacht geography as his most famous public sculpture, the Ó Conaire memorial in Galway city (1935).