One of a pair of similarly eccentric gate lodges built for Summerhill House. According to local legend, “An architect was asked to design two gate-lodges to be placed at the end of the avenue on either side of the main road;
Gatehouse to the former Rose estate at Mullaghmore. The windows of the house have a similar stonework pattern to the porch at the Cornagilta school constructed by the estate.
Fantastically muscular design for the main gateway to Duckett’s Grove – with a total extant of 240feet including two gateways,
Castellated entrance on Mullingar side of Knockdrin demesne, for Sir Richard Levinge, Bt.
Combined gate-house and school building for St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland in Dalkey. Still standing today although missing the top of the small tower.
For George Fox esq. and published in The Building News, May 4th 1877.
Originally a part of the Johnstown Kennedy Estate which was granted to Sir John Charles Kennedy around 1750.
Former gatelodge constructed in Venetian Gothic, a single-storey building in red brick with Staffordshire blue bands and pointed stone arches at the openings.
Designed for Robert Atkinson J.P. of Beaumont. Published in The Irish Builder, September 15 1880. The lodge still exist but the gateway has been widened by removing the central gateposts and the gates removed.
Design exhibited at the RHA Exhibition of 1881 and published in The Irish Builder, November 1 1881.
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