Survey Data
Reg No
31309011
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1840 - 1894
Coordinates
121461, 282332
Date Recorded
17/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway, extant 1894, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of tuck pointed drag edged tooled limestone ashlar piers having lichen-covered cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed wrought iron double gates. Now disused. Road fronted on a corner site at entrance to grounds of Ballinafad House.
Appraisal
A gateway not only making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene at the entrance on to the grounds of the Ballinafad House estate, but also clearly illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the estate in the later nineteenth century.