gates/railings/walls

Gateway, erected c. 1830, comprising a pair of cut limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having moulded limestone capstones with cornice detail and with wrought-iron double-leaf vehicular gates. Roughly dressed limestone boundary walls to either side (east and west) having rubble limestone crenellations over. Located adjacent to main road to the east of Cloondara. Forms rear entrance to two-storey house to the north (13307023).

These walls and the fine gateway add interest to the roadscape. The contrast between the roughly dressed finish of the walls and the carefully cut and carved gate piers is attractive. While the walls are typical of modest farm holdings in their lack of height and their modest functional appearance, the entrance piers show skilled design and execution, and are more typical of a gentleman farmer's residence or country house. Although only very roughly dressed, the lack of visible mortar joints gives the walls a neat finish. This gateway forms the rear entrance to a two-storey house (13307023) to the north (Ordnance Survey third edition six-inch map 1914). However, the gateway predates the present house and may have been associated with an earlier house here or, perhaps, moved to its present site from another location (on Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map 1837).