
What is recorded here
Gateway serving to Riverstown House (15312021), erected c.1880, comprising a pair of ashlar gate piers (on square-plan with moulded ashlar capstones over and having rock-faced panels to shaft), supporting a pair of cast-iron double gates with decorative finials. Main gateway flanked to either side (north and south) by sections of ashlar limestone quadrant walling (on curved plan with moulded coping over) and terminated by further ashlar gate piers with rock-faced panels and with moulded capstones over. Square-headed pedestrian entrance to the south quadrant wall having raised ashlar limestone block-and-start surround and a wrought-iron gate. Similar pedestrian entrance to the north quadrant wall now blocked. Rubble limestone boundary walls run away to the north and the south. Located to the northeast of the Riverstown House and to the southwest of Killucan/Rathwire.
A well-composed and well-detailed entrance gate associated with Riverstown/Rathwire House (15312021). The good quality ashlar limestone masonry is the work of skilled masons, while the decorative cast-iron gates further embellish the aesthetics of this fine composition. This gateway has a later Victorian robustness and character and appears to have been erected sometime after the initial construction of the main house to the southwest. The imposing rubble limestone boundary walls complete this fine composition and add to the setting.
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