Kilboy House, KILBOY (KILMORE PR, N.R.), Dolla, TIPPERARY NORTH - Buildings of Ireland (original) (raw)

Survey Data

Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic

Original Use

Demesne walls/gates/railings

In Use As

Demesne walls/gates/railings

Coordinates

186700, 171649

Description

Entrance gateway, built c.1775, comprising advanced central round-arched carriage opening with portico, flanked by round-arch pedestrian entrances, in turn flanked by pilasters and roughly-coursed rubble limestone boundary walls. Snecked rubble limestone walling, with cut limestone portico with scrolls, archivolts and imposts and dressed quoins and surrounds to pedestrian openings.

Appraisal

This finely-built stone gateway is of apparent architectural design and executed by skilled craftsmen. It presents an impressive entrance to the rebuilt Kilboy House and is a conspicuous landmark on the Dolla to Silvermines road.