Survey Data
Reg No
15319010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1850 - 1855
Coordinates
235788, 239590
Date Recorded
16/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Entrance gateway serving Ballynagore House (15319011), erected c.1852, comprising a central pair of ashlar gate piers (on square-plan with pronounced moulded capstones over) supporting a pair of cast-iron gates. Main gateway flanked to either side by snecked/ashlar limestone walls on curved-plan with cast-iron pedestrian gates and terminated by ashlar gate piers. Located to the southwest of Ballynagore House (15319011) and to the east end of Main Street, Ballynagore. Rubble limestone boundary wall (15319012) runs away to the east.
Appraisal
Monumental entrance piers and gates serving Ballynagore House (15319011), which retain their early character and form. This gateway is well executed and is a fine example of the stonemason’s craft. The good quality decorative cast-iron gates add further aesthetic and artistic merit to this notable gateway. The gates and piers are perhaps the most dramatic piece of architecture along the main street of Ballynagore and makes a strongly positively contribution to the streetscape. It is very likely that the designs for this elegant gateway were carried out by John Skipton Mulvany (1813-1870), who is credited with the designs for Ballynagore House (15319011) itself to the northwest.