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.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15701403
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Sarah777, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- No machine-readable author provided. Voyager assumed (based on copyright claims)., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Alvesgaspar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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