Survey Data
Reg No
20903510
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
178282, 98926
Date Recorded
28/08/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Ashlar limestone gateway to Castle Hyde House, built c. 1830, comprising vehicular gateway and flanking arched pedestrian entrances. Square-profile piers having moulded plinths and entablature with triglyphs, metopes, bucrania and roundel motifs. Pedestrian entrances have moulded coping courses, trefoil-arched openings with hood-mouldings, having moulded panels above, with sphinxes to parapets. Entrance openings flanked by pilasters with moulded capitals. Gateway flanked by curving rubble limestone walling and terminating in second pair of square-profile ashlar limestone piers. Replacement decorative wrought-iron gates. Piers recently resituated back from road. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 2000, inside gates.
Appraisal
These ornate gates form one of the entrances to Castle Hyde House. The gateway is notable for its design which incorporates both classical and Gothic elements. The piers are enlivened by the finely sculpted bucrania, roundel motifs and triglyphs which serve as a reminder of the skill of local stone masons and sculptors available in Ireland at the time of construction. The gateway provides important context to the locality and forms an attractive roadside feature.