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Gates in Greatconnell

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Gates in Greatconnell
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Gates in Greatconnell still stand at the old barracks entrance, with a mapmaker’s benchmark cut into the base. The soldiers have gone, but somebody made absolutely sure the ground couldn’t desert.

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Gateway, extant 1872, on a symmetrical plan including segmental-headed opening between limestone ashlar piers on benchmark-inscribed cut-limestone plinths with limestone ashlar crow stepped voussoirs centred on cut-limestone keystone. Road fronted on a corner site at entrance to grounds of Newbridge Barracks.
A gateway surviving as an interesting relic of the Newbridge Barracks complex: meanwhile, a benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11818062

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