Survey Data
Reg No
15309009
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Previous Name
New Cemetery
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1885 - 1890
Coordinates
242977, 254361
Date Recorded
06/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Main entrance gates to graveyard, erected c.1889, comprising four dressed limestone gate piers, on square-plan with moulded limestone capping stones over, supporting cast-iron gates and cast-iron double gates. Entrances made up of central carriage entrance flanked to either side by pedestrian entrances (north and south). Coursed rubble limestone boundary walls (with crenellated coping over) run away to the north and the south with further dressed limestone piers. Located to the west side of graveyard adjacent to attendant former gate lodge/sexton’s lodge (southeast) (15309010).
Appraisal
An elegant and well detailed late nineteenth-century gateway, forming the main entrance to the Mullingar Town cemetery. This gateway is constructed using good quality dressed limestone, attesting to the high quality craftsmanship available at the time, while the highly decorative cast-iron gates aesthetically enhance this fine composition. The boundary walls to the north and the south complete the setting of this imposing composition, which is appealing feature along the main Mullingar to Longford road to the north of Mullingar Town. It forms an interesting pair with the attendant gate lodge/sexton's house to the southwest (15309010).