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gates/railings/walls — Parkgate Street

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Attached arched granite gateway, formerly to Phoenix Iron Works, built c.1820. Formerly symmetrical, comprising double-height arched entrance with lower flanking wings. Only eastern wing remains. Walls are tooled ashlar granite throughout. Piers with plain projecting impost mouldings carry semi-circular arch with ashlar voussoirs. Voussoirs to south inner elevation rendered over. Plain granite coping and stepped blocking course to arch and flanking wing. Rendered semi-circular arch to east wing (probably infilled former pedestrian entrance), with brass letter slot and slate sign reading 'Regd Office Hickey & Co. Dún Laoghaire Ltd'. Surmounted by three-stage rebated rectangular niche formed in dressed granite blocks. Steel gates to arch, and further steel gate attached to rear of arch, now in use as vehicular entrance. Street fronted.

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