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Leinster House — Merrion Square

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Leinster House — Merrion Square
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Gates and railings to eastern boundary of Leinster House complex, erected c. 1855, comprising vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances (one leading to Natural History Museum) having square-plan panelled higher inner piers topped with fluted friezes and moulded caps supporting cast-iron lamps, abutted by half-piers with banding, chamfered corners and cavetto caps and mirrored by full piers to outer sides of pedestrian entrances. Entrances flanked by ornate cast-iron railings with spearhead finials on granite plinth with ogee-profile copings, gates having ornate cast-ironwork with different ornament to main body, but having shamrock and spearhead motifs to top rail, cast-iron spear-headed railings having shamrock frieze and shamrock heads to lower rails.

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