What is recorded here
Boakefield in Ballitore puts urns on top of its gateposts, which is a fierce confident place to keep anything breakable. That’s not an entrance; that’s a mantelpiece daring you to reverse a cart.
Gateway, extant 1837, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of roughcast piers on moulded cut-granite plinths having urn finial-topped ogee-detailed cornice capping supporting wrought iron double gates with cut-granite tapered colonnette outer piers supporting wrought iron gates. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Boakefield.
A gateway making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene at the entrance on to the grounds of the Boakefield estate.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11822053
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Mega Phil, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Gerd Eichmann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sciadopitys from UK, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Alex Passmore, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- dougf, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- John Michael Wright, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Jonathan Billinger, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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