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Defensive gateway, built 1631, retaining original aspect comprising single-bay two-storey central block with elliptical-headed carriageway, and single-bay three-storey gable-fronted advanced flanking towers. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to towers) with clay ridge tiles, lead valleys, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar, and traces of unpainted lime render over. Square-headed window openings with timber lintels, and timber casement windows having leaded panes. Elliptical-headed carriageway with rubble stone voussoirs, and no fittings. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels having rubble stone voussoirs over, and timber boarded doors. Interior with limewashed rubble stone walls, timber staircase, timber boarded floors on timber beams, and exposed timber roof construction having lime mortar. Set back from road at entrance to grounds of Lismore Castle estate with avenue to south-west and to north-east.
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