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Lissard House

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Lissard House
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Gateway, erected c.1860, comprising a pair of limestone ashlar piers having stepped capstones supporting pair of cast-iron gates. Gateway flanked on either side by roughly dressed rubble limestone quadrants terminating in limestone ashlar piers having stepped capstones. Wall-mounted post box. Altered and extended single-storey gate lodge.
This simple gateway stands at the entrance to the Lissard House estate. The piers are built of finely dressed limestone while the cast-iron gates are of some artistic interest. The style of the gates, similar to those at Ardagh House (1863), suggests that the gateway was erected in the mid to late nineteenth century and replaced a gateway shown on the same site on the Ordnance Survey County Longford Sheet 15 (1838). The demolished Lissard House was a three-storey block of late eighteenth-century construction, possibly incorporating earlier fabric dating to the turn of the eighteenth century, and was associated with the O'Ferrall/More O'Ferrall family for much of the nineteenth century. It was sold in 1952 and subsequently demolished.

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