Survey Data
Reg No
13401433
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Technical
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1890 - 1910
Coordinates
223519, 275681
Date Recorded
26/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Field gate, c. 1900, comprising a pair of coursed roughly dressed limestone masonry piers (on square-plan) with carved caps and having double leaf wrought-iron flat bar gates with semi-circular bars. Coursed rubble limestone boundary walls to either side (north and south). Set slightly back from the road in the rural country side to the southeast of Ballinalee.
Appraisal
This simple vernacular gateway/field gate retains its early form and character. The piers are well-built using field stone while the simple wrought-iron flat bar gates represent good examples of traditional craftsmanship. Simple but robust gateways of this nature were, until recently, very common in the rural landscape but are particularly vulnerable to modernisation and loss and are regularly replaced with mass produced examples. The gates make a pleasing contribution to the landscape and form an attractive roadside feature. Although construction was primarily functional, they exhibit visual appeal in the rural countryside.