What is recorded here
Ballynahaha House has vanished, but its triumphal entrance arch is still standing there announcing your arrival. Through you go, feeling like an emperor, straight into the discovery that you haven’t a house either.
Freestanding sandstone arch, dated 1863, comprising dressed sandstone walls with roughly dressed cappings and plaque inscribed: "AD/1863". Segmental-headed arch with roughly dressed sandstone voussoirs and carved impost course. Flanking round-headed niches to arch. Set back from the road.
This robust archway employs the triumphal arch motif, with its processional associations, and here it is recreated it in a rustic style. The composition is representative of the craftsmanship of the mid nineteenth century. The gateway forms a grand and imposing entrance to the Ballynahaha House estate: the eponymous house no longer survives.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21903006
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- SteveODowd, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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