Survey Data
Reg No
15317027
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1830 - 1860
Coordinates
218472, 238512
Date Recorded
08/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway, erected c.1845, comprising a pair of dressed limestone gate piers on square-plan with cut stone capstones over. Sections of coursed squared rubble limestone walling run away to the north and the south. Gateway now forms entrance to a modern house with modern gate piers, walls and gates located inside gates to the east. Located to the east side of Station Road and to the north of the centre of Moate.
Appraisal
A robustly-built gateway, which represents an attractive feature on the streetscape of Moate to the north of the town. This gateway now forms the entrance to a modern house but may have been originally associated with a former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, which stood just to the south of this location (map 1914). Gateways of this nature were once a common feature of in Irish towns and villages but are becoming increasingly rare today due to removal to accommodate modern needs and it is refreshing to find these piers insitu and in a well-maintained. The limestone boundary walls running away to the north and the south complete the setting of this unassuming composition.