Cork Hill Gate - Remedial Works

Location

Dublin Castle

Client

Office of Public Works

Type

Conservation

Description

The main entrance to Dublin Castle is a large archway on Cork Hill, designed by the Surveyor General of Ireland, Sir Arthur Jones Neville, and completed in 1753. It is one of a pair of such archways, one of which was originally fictive. As it is topped with a statue of Justice, it is sometimes known as the “Justice Gate”. The Dublin Castle complex buildings are recorded on the Record of Protected Structures, Dublin County Council, reference number 2051 and are scheduled for inclusion as a Recorded Archaeological Site, reference DU018-020619. The archway was constructed in the mid eighteenth century, formed from brick, with courses of rusticated Wicklow granite to the front and rear. It culminates in a deep, segmental-headed, broken pediment, on top of which, facing the Upper Castle Yard, is a statue of Justice. This was cast in lead by the Flemish sculptor Jan Van Nost the Younger, and was in position by 1753

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