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Archbishop's House — Drumcondra Road Lower

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Archbishop's House — Drumcondra Road Lower
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Gateway and boundary walls, erected c. 1890, defining western boundary of Archbishop's House and Holy Cross College. Quadrant main entrance with pair of square-plan panelled limestone piers having carved plinths, fluted capitals, dentillated frieze, stepped flat-topped caps with decorative cast-iron lamps and pointed finials. Crest and carved foliate frame to centre panels to front (west) faces. Double-leaf wrought-iron gate with decorative foliate detail, flanked by single-leaf matching gates set to square-plan limestone piers with panelled shafts, moulded capitals with round bosses to frieze, and stepped flat caps with carved limestone orb mounts with round boss detail and pine cone finials. Decorative wrought and cast-iron railings on carved limestone plinth walls to quadrant, terminating in matching outer piers. Snecked rusticated granite boundary walling having cut granite copings.

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