Following last Monday’s post about Johnstown Castle, County Wexford (see This Magnificent Building « The Irish Aesthete), herewith two of the five entrances to the estate. That above, which is believed to date from the early 19th century, perhaps erected soon after the property was returned to the ownership of the Grogan family, consists of a pair of cement-rendered, two-storey polygonal lodges flanking gateposts. An old photograph shows that the entire structure was once more elaborate in style, the lodges having Perpendicular Gothic windows on the ground floor and oculi above, and the space between them filled by a castellated arch. It would have borne similarity with another of the entrances, seen below, for which signed drawings by Martin Day, dated 1846, survive. This one takes the form of a miniature castle, constructed of rubble stone and cut granite for dressings, with a three-storey, battlemented tower incorporating a first-floor Tudoresque Oriel window, standing to one side of the castellated gate. 

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