Palmerstown House, demesne walls in County Kildare

What is recorded here

Palmerstown House has a globe on each gatepost, in case one world wasn’t enough to establish the family’s circumstances. Even before you got inside, you’d feel obliged to apologise for owning only a bicycle.

Gateway, c.1850, comprising pair of granite ashlar piers with moulded cornice capping having globe finials, cast-iron double gates and rendered curved flanking walls with cast-iron pedestrian gates and granite ashlar terminating piers. Set back from line of dual carriageway with grass verge to front.

This gateway, which is an integral component of the Palmerstown House estate, is an attractive feature on the side of the dual carriageway and serves to convey to the passer-by the opulence of the main house. The construction of the piers reveals a high quality of stone masonry practised in the locality while the gates are important examples of early surviving cast-iron work.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11812027

This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.

Places near here

Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Darrin Antrobus, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mega Phil, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ridiculopathy, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
originally uploaded to the English Wikipedia by w:User:Jtdirl, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Robert Bone, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0