1854 – Gateway, Shane’s Castle, Randalstown, Co. Antrim

A large and impressive stone Tudor arched gateway, with a tall octagonal tower to one side and a single storey gatelodge to the other side. Built as a gateway and lodge to Shane’s Castle estate, the precise date is not known, but it appears on a map of 1858, and is referred to as a main entrance to the estate by a writer in 1854. Stylistically it may be dated to the 1840s, and may be a work by the architect James Sands who was involved with the estate in 1848 and to whom other lodges at Shane’s Castle have been attributed.

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