Survey Data
Reg No
13401417
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Carrickglass House
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
216445, 277532
Date Recorded
17/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway serving the west entrance to Carrigglas Manor (13401414), erected c. 1840, comprising a pair of ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan) with chamfered plinths and having stepped capstones over. Double leaf spear-headed wrought-iron gates. Cut stone wheel guards to exterior faces of piers. Gateway flanked to either side (north and south) by sections of rubble stone boundary walling having cut stone coping over. Segmental-arched pedestrian gateway to south section of walling having brick voussoirs and with single leaf wrought-iron iron gate. Post box (13401418) to north wall. Set slightly back from the road with associated gate lodge (13401416) located adjacent to the southeast (inside of gates). Located to the west of Carriglass Manor and to the northeast of Longford Town.
Appraisal
This gateway constitutes the west entrance to Carrigglas Manor (13401414), and forms an integral element of an important group of structures associated with the main house. The gate piers are well-executed in good quality ashlar limestone and are clearly the work of skilled craftsmen. The gates are a reminder of the skill of local stone masons available in Ireland at the time of their construction. They provide important context to the locality and form an attractive roadside feature. It forms a related pair of structures with the adjacent gate lodge (13401416) to the southeast, and adds artistic interest to the roadscape to the northeast of Longford Town. This possibly replaced an earlier gateway at the same location.