- Type
- Demesne walls / gates / railings
- NIAH reg. no.
- 40402018
Battleaxe Gate Lodge
About Battleaxe Gate Lodge
Battleaxe Gate Lodge is one of 72 buildings in Cavan the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Battleaxe Gate Lodge to 1850–1860. 4 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This distinctive and impressive gate screen is the former main entrance of Farnham House, once the centre of a large country estate of over 3,000 acres.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 40402018 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 40402018↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 3 historic places in about 10 minutes
Cavan · about 600 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Battleaxe Gate LodgeStart here
- 2Drumbar HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 300 m on
- 3Edermin HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 300 m on
2 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Like it: recorded walls, gates and bridges near Cavan
Just 5.3 km away stands Bridge, in Butlersbridge. Within 40 km, 8 have a photo. The farthest is The New Bridge in Cootehill, 22 km away.
Questions about Battleaxe Gate Lodge
Is Battleaxe Gate Lodge on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 40402018).
Can you visit Battleaxe Gate Lodge?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Battleaxe Gate Lodge built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1850–1860.
Is Battleaxe Gate Lodge protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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