Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Gateway (present location)
Loughcrew, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughcrew
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73437, -7.14630
- SMR number
- ME015-119002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
When the Naper house (ME015-119003-) was removed after 1778 a gateway from it was built into the centre of the S side of the garden as an ornamental gateway, and was in place by 1836. It has recently been restored with the gardens. It is a rounded limestone arch (Wth 1.66m; H c. 3m) with two mouldings on the arch that do not descend to the ground but stop c. 2m over it. On either side rectangular piers are attached to the wall (H c. 2m) and these support columns with Ionian capitals, which in turn support a frieze that is surmounted by a stone with the date 1673. Outside the pillars there are two recesses in the wall of the garden.
See the attached image.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 December, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Walled gardenunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.