What is recorded here

Boundary walls and entrance gates, built c. 1820, and marking perimeter of now demolished Fermoy House and forming boundary to public park. Rubble limestone plinth walls with dressed limestone coping and cast-iron spearhead railings. Cast-iron lamp standards mounted at intervals on square-profile dressed limestone piers with plinths and caps. Quadrant entrance to avenue having ten square-profile piers to three vehicular gateways, one gateway being flanked by pedestrian entrances. Piers are of rusticated ashlar limestone, with moulded caps and plinths, and having cast-iron gates, with decorative cast-iron railings between gateways.

These walls once formed the boundary to the demesne of Fermoy House. John Anderson, the founder of Fermoy town, built and lived in this house in the early nineteenth century. The walls and piers are a reminder of Fermoy's foundations and history and enhance their prominent site, near the river and surrounding the large park. The piers are well executed and show evidence of fine stone crafting. Their simple design offsets the decoration provided by the cast-iron railings and gates.

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