The former main entrance to the demesne of Dunsany Castle, County Meath is thought to date from the 1830s and to have been designed by James Shiel, an architect who specialises in castellating any building that stayed still long enough to be garnished with crenelations and battlements. In this instance, a rubble-faced lodge in the form of a small square keep, two storey to the front and three storey to the rear, rises to one side of the buttressed and Tudor-arched carriage gatescreen which is of crisp ashlar. Both here and in the adjacent pedestrian entrance, the decorative ironwork survives, giving the ensemble a suitably splendid appearance.
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It’s nice to see people make an effort when it comes to gates and gate lodges.
Although gates can often write cheques that the house fails to cash. Making them too grand only leads to disappointment. Not the case with Dunsany though.
Thank you, the ironwork is splendid!.