Ballynahown Court

Main entrance gates serving Ballynahown Court (15403514), erected c.1860, comprising a pair of rusticated ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan with pyramidal capstones over) supporting a pair of cast-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side (north and south) by sections of plinth wall on shallow curved plan, having decorative cast-iron railings over, and terminated by further rusticated ashlar limestone gate piers. Rubble limestone boundary wall runs away to the north and south. Located to the east of Ballynahown Court and to the west of attendant gate lodge (15403505).

An impressive entrance gate that serves as a suitably fine first impression when entering the grounds of Ballynahown Court (15403514). The fine rusticated ashlar gate piers are of a simple design but the bold rustication imbues them with a robust and masculine quality. The fine cast-iron railings further embellish the aesthetics of this good quality composition. The style of the gate piers and the railings mirrors that found to the road-frontage of the attendant gate lodge to the west, tying these features together stylistically into a self contained unit. This gateway forms part of a group of structures associated with Ballynahown Court and is an attractive feature in the landscape of south Westmeath in its own right.