Survey Data
Reg No
60230114
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1930 - 1935
Coordinates
322396, 227263
Date Recorded
28/11/2016
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway, built 1931, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of margined rock faced granite ashlar tapering piers on cut-granite chamfered cushion courses on plinths having "Cavetto"-detailed curvilinear pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates with margined rock faced granite ashlar tapering outer piers on cut-granite chamfered cushion courses on plinths having "Cavetto"-detailed curvilinear pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron serpentine railings. Road fronted at entrance to Deans Grange Cemetery.
Appraisal
A gateway erected to a design by Patrick Harnett McCarthy (1868-1942) of Lower Leeson Street, Dublin (The Irish Builder 1st August 1931, 686), illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of Deans Grange Cemetery in the twentieth century.