
What is recorded here
Gateway, c.1800, comprising paired unpainted rendered piers with iron double gates, unpainted roughcast curved flanking walls incorporating square-headed pedestrian gateway to east (having cut-limestone block-and-start surround with keystone, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door), and unpainted rendered outer piers leading to unpainted roughcast boundary wall. Extensively renovated, pre-1992. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Good Shepherd Centre (Loreto Convent).
Dating to a period when the Saint James's Park House estate was briefly adapted to use as a Diocesan college known as Saint Canice's Academy an elegantly-composed gateway retains most of the original form together with some of the historic fabric including an appealing Classically-derived doorcase enhancing the streetscape value of Church Lane.
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
Bishop's Palacebishop's palace · 65 yd
Cathedral in Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Canice Par.)Cathedral · 67 yd
Loreto Conventconvent/nunnery · 78 yd
Saint Canice's Cathedral Round TowerViewpoint · 91 yd
St. Canice's CathedralVisitor information · 104 yd
Black PoplarBlack Poplar · 231 yd
Black AbbeyVisitor information · 385 yd
Rothe House & GardenMuseum · 415 ydOther information
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