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What is recorded here

Detached former gate lodge, built c. 1840, comprising canted three-bay entrance block with limestone pedimented porch to front (south) elevation and square-plan two-stage tower with lean-to to front elevation. Hipped slate roofs with limestone bracketed eaves courses. Single-pitched roof to lean-to having limestone coping. Dressed limestone walls having limestone plinth courses. Shouldered square-headed openings to canted block having quarry glazed windows. Round-headed openings to tower having replacement casement windows. Porch comprising limestone pediment with inset carved heraldic plaque and date stone, limestone stringcourse with foliate stops and shouldered square-headed opening having timber panelled door. Shouldered square-headed opening to tower, north elevation having timber panelled door. Square limestone piers and cast-iron gate to east.

The former gate lodge to Glenstal Castle is a fine example of Norman Revival domestic architecture. It displays high quality of workmanship of nineteenth-century masons. The crest above the front entrance door is that of the Barrington family. The English architect William Bardwell designed Glenstal Castle, between 1836-1861, for the Limerick solicitor Sir Matthew Barrington.

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