Survey Data
Reg No
15308019
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Demesne walls/gates/railings
In Use As
Demesne walls/gates/railings
Date
1800 - 1870
Coordinates
260024, 263156
Date Recorded
03/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Gothic Revival-style gateway, built c.1810, comprising pair of rendered octagonal gate piers and cast-iron double gates, flanked by sections of rendered wall with cut-stone coping, integral pointed arch-headed pedestrian entrances with cast-iron gates and terminated by piers on octagonal plan. Inner piers have moulded clustered colonnettes with moulded cornice and finials over. Estate wall, constructed of limestone rubble, to north and south of gateway. Located to east of Clonyn Castle with remains of former gate lodge to immediate north.
Appraisal
An attractive and sophisticated Gothic Revival-style gateway which retains its original form and character. The intricate raised detailing to the inner piers is of artistic merit. This gateway is of early nineteenth-century appearance but is not marked on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map. It may be a copy of an earlier gate or perhaps it was moved to its present location from another entrance, probably to north, when the present Clonyn Castle was constructed c. 1870. This gateway forms part of an important group of demesne-related structures with Clonyn Castle to the west and is an attractive feature in the streetscape along one of the main approach roads into Delvin.