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Gateway, c. 1900, comprising a pair of tooled limestone gate posts and a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Rubble stone boundary walls to either side (east and west). Located in the rural countryside to the east of Longford Town.
A simple yet appealing vernacular gateway, displaying good quality traditional craft workmanship, which is a subtle and unassuming element of the built heritage of rural County Longford. It is well constructed using nicely carved limestone gate posts and retains a good set of traditional wrought-iron flat bar gates. Simple but robust gateways of this nature were, until recently, very common in the rural landscape but are particularly vulnerable to modernisation and loss and are regularly replaced with mass produced examples. The gates make a pleasing contribution to the landscape and form an attractive roadside feature.

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