St. John's, gates in County Donegal

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Gateway serving St. John’s (house not in survey), erected c. 1880, comprising decorative cast-iron gate posts with chamfered corners, torus mouldings, chamfer stops, surmounted by finials over (pine cones?), and with decorative cast-iron double-gates with fleur-de-lys finials over. Central vehicular gateway flanked to either side (east and west) by pedestrian gateways having cast-iron gate posts and gates of the same design. Roughcast rendered boundary walls to either side having painted coping over. Located to the west of associated house, and towards the centre of the Fahan.

This good-quality late Victorian gateway, of simple but attractive design, survives in particularly good condition, and is an interesting feature in the streetscape to the centre of the straggling village of Fahan. It represents an interesting and increasingly rare surviving example of mass-produced late-nineteenth cast-ironwork with elaborate gate posts and gates with fleur-de-lys finials. This gateway was erected to serve St. John’s (not in survey) to the east but was relocated to provide a wider entrance to the house (now in use as a restaurant and guest house). Of technical and artistic value for the quality of the castings, this gateway also contributes to the aesthetic diversity of the streetscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40820008

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