What is recorded here
Random coursed sandstone gateway, built c.1815, comprising of round-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs, surmounted by limestone cornice with thirteen corbels decorated with carved faces and a carved plaque to both elevations. Flanked by random rubble sidewalls with modern stone steps. Walls may contain fabric from…
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From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14910011
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.msn.com
- Daingean GAA / Facebook, credited by Offaly Independent; individual photographer not named, www.offalyindependent.ie
- Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Royalcanalrunner, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dylan Moore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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