Survey Data
Reg No
31311021
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Scientific
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1800 - 1838
Coordinates
125322, 269073
Date Recorded
07/03/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway, extant 1838[?], on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of garland-detailed tooled cut-limestone panelled "obelisk" piers on chamfered plinths having lichen-covered pyramidal capping with garland-detailed tooled cut-limestone panelled "obelisk" outer piers on benchmark-inscribed chamfered plinths having lichen-covered pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron railings. Repositioned, post-1918. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Clooncormick House.
Appraisal
A Classically-detailed gateway, 'similar to Ballyfin [House], County Laois, by Sir Richard Morrison [1767-1849]' (Craig and Garner 1976, 37), making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan setting at the principal entrance on to the grounds of the fragmented Clooncormick House estate: meanwhile, a discreet benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).