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Freestanding castellated gateway, gate lodge and screen wall formerly serving the main entrance to Camlin Castle (now ruinous/largely demolished), built c. 1838, having integral Tudor-arched carriage-arch gateway, and with single-storey single-bay former gate lodge to the north-east of gateway (now ruinous) having attached double-height flag tower/tower (on circular-plan) to the south face. Now out of use and derelict. Raised castellated cut stone parapets to tower, gateway and to screen wall having cut stone coping over; Irish-style crenellations to tower and gateway. Machicolated parapet to tower having moulded stone corbels. Blind loop hole-type openings to battlements to tower and gateway; blind loop hole-type openings to tower having circular gun openings motifs to base and to head. Snecked and dressed ashlar construction with slight base batter to tower and gateway. Raised blank cut stone shield/plaque over gateway; diagonally-set stepped dressed ashlar clasping buttress to the east side of gateway. Square-headed window openings to tower and to screen walls having chamfered dressed stone surrounds and with wrought-iron bars to some openings. Round-headed window opening to south elevation of former lode to west, now infilled, having staged chamfered cut stone reveals and with hoodmoulding over. Tudor-arched integral carriage-arch opening to gateway having chamfered dressed stone reveals, ashlar panel over with inset blind triangular motifs to spandrels, hoodmoulding over, and with Saxon-style replacement metal gates. Gateway flanked to the east side (east and west) by castellated section of snecked dressed ashlar screen wall (on quadrant-plan). Set slightly back from road to the east of Ballyshannon and to the south-west of the remains of Camlin Castle (see 40910776). Located at start of long approach avenue to house.

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