Correen House Gates

 gate, listed building / architectural heritage, 1930s construction

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Granite gate piers with cast-iron gates and railings, erected c.1930, once affording access to Correen House, but now giving access to Coilte forest. Central octagonal-profiled piers with blind arrow loops support cast-iron gates with double axe and spear-headed finials. Cast-iron railings sweep to outer square-profiled granite piers with chamfered corners. Stone wheel guards to inner piers.

In the 1930s these finely-carved gate piers, iron gates and railings replaced an original entrance to Correen House. In decoration, a theme of defence was achieve by the incorporation of motifs including arrow loops, spear heads and a double axe. It is fitting therefore that these gates once led to a nineteenth-century castellated house. The use of granite is unusual in Roscommon, a county in which limestone was widely utilised as a building material.