Kevin Street Garda Station\Marsh's Library — Kevin Street Upper

Gateway, erected c. 1705, and boundary wall with railings of 1825, to former archiepiscopal palace, later military barracks and police/Garda station, and part of western boundary forming enclosure to Marsh's Library to northwest. Gateway comprises granite cross-plan piers with moulded cornice and base, having full-height fluted Doric pilasters to front and rear faces. Lower pilasters to gate sides with moulded tops. Similarly high but more substantial and deeper pilasters to railing sides. Each having moulded base on dressed limestone plinth, moulded cornice, blocking course and heavy scroll bracket. Flanking walling comprises dressed limestone piers with intervening panels of rubble limestone with ends of brick and having cut limestone coping and moulded limestone coping over dressed limestone plinth. Square-headed pedestrian doorway to east part, with granite block-and-start surround and recent timber door. Wrought-iron railings atop wall, having decorative cast-iron posts with urn finials. Snecked limestone boundary wall to west boundary of site, having crenellated coping to external half and higher internal face and cut stone coping to internal half. Square-plan piers at junction of Kevin Street and St. Patrick's Close and at junction of boundaries to Marsh's Library and St. Patrick's Cathedral graveyard, with moulded bases and cornices and spired cut limestone caps with fleur-de-lis finials. Similar, but more detailed, piers mark entrance to St. Patrick's Close at junction with Patrick Street. Western boundary wall rises in height along middle section and thereafter is lower and forms boundary to front of Marsh's Library, ending at graveyard to St. Patrick's Cathedral.