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Monasterboice House — COOLFORE

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Monasterboice House — COOLFORE
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Freestanding monumental limestone entrance gateway, built 1869. Triumphal arch form with round-headed carriage opening set within square-headed surround crowned by limestone parapet. Limestone rubble masonry with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs, string course and rebate. Carved limestone plaque with hood moulding bearing inscription and date 1869, to west elevation. Formerly served as entrance to Monasterboice House, now narrow public road, fronting on to wider road to west, very overgrown, vegetation possibly masking boundary wall to north and south.

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