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Freestanding carved limestone triumphal arch entrance screen, erected c.1890, with rubble stone boundary wall. Round-headed vehicular arch built in smooth tooled limestone ashlar with decorative replacement iron gates hung on piers with moulded archivolt rising from impost mouldings and carved ribbon moulding having raised lettering; ‘Laudare Benedicere Predicare’. Paired Doric pilasters in single plinth block flank the arch with plain frieze and lead-lined segmental cornice having scrolled keystone and surmounted by stone cross. Pedestrian gateway to either side, built in smooth limestone ashlar with original cast-iron gates set within square-headed openings in turn set within round-headed recesses surmounted by hood cornice and blocking course. Entrance screen is cement rendered to west elevation. To either side of the gate screen is a short span of tall cement rendered wall, with pebble encrusted panels and cornicing to the piers, central panel of each section having an open-bed segmental pediment. Wall continues along Ratoath Road as rubble stone boundary wall with cement pointing and cement coping, extending northwards to the north end of the College site. Detached two-bay single-storey L-plan gate lodge, built c.1950 or much altered earlier building, abutting boundary wall.
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