What is recorded here

Three sets of entrance gates associated with Hilltown House (15400315), erected c.1800, comprising three pairs of rubble limestone gate piers, on circular plan, with associated wrought-iron gates of various designs. Located to the rear (north) and along the approach avenue to Hilltown House to the south.

These modest entrance gates are attractive and subtle features in the landscape and have important group associations with Hilltown House (15400315). The use of local stone helps to assimilate the gate piers into the surrounding landscape. They represent good examples of the North Leinster vernacular tradition of rubble stone gate piers on circular plan, a tradition now in terminal decline. The good wrought-iron gates highlight the diversity and quality of vernacular ironmongery at the time. Gates of this nature were once extremely common in the rural countryside but are becoming increasingly rare today as field gates are widened to accommodate modern machinery amongst other things.

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