Clynan House

Gateway associated with Clynan House (13402352), erected c. 1815, comprising a pair of dressed ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having moulded capstones, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates with spear finials. Road-fronted to the southwest of the now ruinous Clynan House and to the southwest of Abbeyshrule.

This robust if rather plainly-detailed gateway originally formed the main entrance to Clynan House (13402352), house now in ruins. The gateway survives in good condition and retains its early form and character. It is well-built using good quality dressed ashlar limestone masonry, while the simple wrought-iron gates survive in relatively good condition and add aesthetic interest to the rural landscape to the southwest of Abbeyshrule. Clynan House itself has historical connections with the Slator and Coates families (later the Coates-Slator family, will dated 1811 of Bevan Slator stipulates that his nephew Bevan Coates change his name to Bevan Slator in order to receive inheritance in 1813). Bevan Coates-Slator (1799 – 1854) served as High Sheriff of Longford in 1827, as a Justice of the Peace from c. 1834, and as the Grand Treasurer of the Orange Order in Longford in 1835. Clynan passed into the ownership of Arthur Coates-Slator and then a Bevan Slator from c. 1880 (died 1901). The Slator-Coates family also ran Cloghan corn mill (13402351) adjacent to the west. This simple but well-crafted gateway now acts as an historic reminder of Clynan House (13402352), and is an integral element of the built heritage of the local area.