Overview
Moore Park — Kilworth is recorded as gates/railings/walls in Cork. Quadrant rubble stone entrance gateway, built c. 1820. Curving walls have dressed and tooled limestone plinth course and dressed limestone terminating piers.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Quadrant rubble stone entrance gateway, built c. 1820.
People and work
The saved account records: Curving walls have dressed and tooled limestone plinth course and dressed limestone terminating piers.
How it changed
The saved account records: Square-headed pedestrian entrances flanking entrance, with dressed limestone surrounds and lintels, that to south-east having decorative cast-iron gate.
What survives
The saved account records: Painted rendered walls with render quoins.
Why it mattered
Moore Park — Kilworth matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This site was once the entrance to the Moore Park estate, which was the big house around which Kilworth grew. Its curved walls are a notable feature on the roadside and are accentuated by the finely crafted limestone piers and plinth course. The form of the entrance, with the main opening flanked by pedestrian entrances is of an elegant design, befitting the site and its historical importance within the town. The gate lodge retains much of its original form and is characteristic of gate lodges of its time. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Indicated — Mooreparkmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- school — Kilworthbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Indicated — Glansheskinmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Mapped graveyard — County Corkmemorialunder 0.1 miles
- St Martins Catholic Church — Glansheskinmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Saint Martin's Church — Kilworthbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- house — Main Streetbuilding0.2 miles
- The Village Inn / M. O'Brien — Main Streetbuilding0.2 miles
- G Yd — Kilworthmonument0.2 miles
- The Village Arts Centre — Kilworthbuilding0.2 miles
- Church in Kilworthmonument0.2 miles
- Tom Cotter / The Arch Bar — Main Streetbuilding0.2 miles
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