Survey Data
Reg No
15312024
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1860 - 1900
Coordinates
256642, 251091
Date Recorded
19/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway, erected c.1880, comprising a pair of cast-iron gate posts on octagonal plan with ball finials over supporting a pair of wrought-iron flat-bar gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls run away to the north and the south. Located to the southwest of Killucan/Rathwire at the entrance to a pair of mid-to-late-nineteenth century houses.
Appraisal
A good quality set of cast-iron gate posts with wrought-iron gates in a simple but attractive design. This gateway serves as the entrance to a mid-to-late nineteenth-century house, one of a number of similar houses along Riverstown Road, which have an estate character and may have been built under the patronage of Long Longford. It is an interesting feature along the main approach road into Killucan/Rathwire from the south.