The Morrison Gates

Portumna Castle Gateway built circa1860 at the head of the avenue leading to the farm courtyard of Portumna Castle. These gates show skilled craftsmanship and are part of a group of four formal gateways that mark the entrances associated with Portumna Castle. Comprising decorative cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys heads on moulded limestone plinths, set between square-profile ashlar limestone piers with chamfered corners, moulded string course to the shaft, moulded bases, and pointed caps. Similar cast-iron double-leaf gates. Flanked by curving dressed limestone wing walls with cut-stone pointed coping stones. Cast-iron spearhead railings on reticulated dressed limestone plinth with tooled ashlar coping to the south-east. The combination of dressed and ashlar limestone and decorative cast-iron lends an architectural quality to the gateway making this an important feature of the streetscape.