Gates in Lockardstown

Two vernacular entrances, erected c.1850, comprising two pairs of rubble limestone gate piers, on circular plan, with roughly cut stone copping over, each supporting wrought-iron gate. Located opposite each other to the north and south sides of a small country road. Rubble limestone boundary walls run away on both sides of the road to the east. Located to the northwest of Loughanavally.

This set of matching field entrances have been remarkably well-maintained as has the flanking rubble stone walls. The use of local material and vernacular construction merits them with social significance. Simple vernacular entrance gates of this nature were once very common features of the rural landscape of Westmeath but are now becoming increasingly rare on account of clearance to accommodate modern agricultural needs and road widening schemes etc. Although construction was primarily functional, they exhibit visual appeal in the rural countryside. The two wrought-iron gates, of varying design, illustrate the variety of ironmongery available at the time.