What is recorded here
Gateway, extant 1839, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of granite ashlar piers on chamfered plinths having "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornices below ball finial-topped capping supporting wrought iron double gates. Lane fronted at entrance to grounds of Ballycrystal House.
A gateway surviving as an interesting relic of the Ballycrystal House estate following the destruction of the eponymous house during the 1798 Insurrection.
This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.
Places near here
Ballycrystal Bridgebridge · 629 yd
farm housefarm house · 664 yd
IndicatedEnclosure · 936 yd
Embanked enclosureFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 1427 yd
Clorogue BegMountain / peak · 1.4 mi
Black Rock MountainMountain / peak · 2.2 mi
Mount LeinsterMountain · 3.2 mi
Irish Hangliding and Paragliding AssociationMemorial · 3.3 mi
Pedunculate OakPedunculate Oak · 3.5 mi
St Bridget's WellSpring · 3.8 mi
Site of Clonmullen CastleCastle, unclassified · 4.3 mi
Coonogue WoodForest · 4.4 miOther information
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