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Gateway to Spiddal House, erected c.1910, comprising triumphal arch having round vehicular arch flanked by lower flat-headed openings, one for pedestrians and the other blind and having cut limestone lintels. Openings flanked by pilasters, those flanking vehicular entrance being higher. Coursed dressed and pecked limestone blocks, vehicular arch having alternating radially-set slate, and having concrete copings over projecting slate couse. Decorative wrought-iron gates to openings, vehicular entrance also having wrought-iron piers. Coursed rubble walls to north and uncoursed rubble to south. Detached three-bay, single-storey gate lodge to south side of gateway now ruinous and having coursed limestone and granite chimneystack. Roughly coursed granite walls with quoins and square-headed openings with stone sills and lintels and remains of timber frames, door opening having stone canopy with supporting corbels and remains of timber frame.

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Spiddal House — An Spidéal [Spiddle]

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