Survey Data
Reg No
11817077
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1880 - 1920
Coordinates
272550, 212364
Date Recorded
13/02/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway, c.1900, comprising pair of red brick piers with cut-stone capping having cast-iron double gates.
Appraisal
This gateway, which forms the entrance on to the grounds of the Abbey Villa (House) estate, is an attractive, if subtle, feature on the streetscape of Turnpike Road. The gateway is evidence of the expansion and improvement of urban estates in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries, reflecting the growing prosperity of the merchant or professional class in Kildare town. The gates are a good example of early surviving cast-iron work and are of some artistic merit.