Survey Data
Reg No
12000082
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1860 - 1865
Coordinates
250535, 156077
Date Recorded
16/06/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Remains of gateway, built 1862, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of drag edged rusticated limestone ashlar outer piers on moulded cushion courses on drag edged tooled limestone ashlar plinths having ogee-detailed cornices on friezes on stringcourses below monolithic capping. Street fronted.
Appraisal
The remains of a gateway surviving as an interesting relic of the 'PUBLIC MARKETS ESTABLISHED UNDER 24TH VICTORIA CHAP. 49 [Kilkenny Markets Act 1861]'. NOTE: A panel installed during the mayoralty (1887-8) of Patrick M. Egan (1843-1903) commemorates the 'CONFEDERATION HALL ON THIS SPOT...WHERE ON THE 24_ OCTOBER 1642 THE CONFEDERATE PARLIAMENT OR GENERAL ASSEMBLY...MET TO LEGISLATE FOR THE IRISH NATION AND TO CONDUCT THE CONFEDERATE WARS WHICH WERE WAGED TO MAINTAIN THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL LIBERTIES OF THE IRISH PEOPLE'.