Farmyard wall and gate piers at Finnebrogue estate farmyard, at 31 Killyleagh Road, Finnabrogue, Downpatrick, Co Down

Long, tall rubble-built wall of perhaps c.1795-1800, with two sets of gates, which encloses the north-west side of the Finnebrogue estate farmyard, a large complex built in various stages from (perhaps) c.1790s, to the mid 1900s. The farmyard is located on the SE side of Killyleagh Road, roughly two miles N of Downpatrick, with the wall facing directly unto the road itself. The wall is in fieldstone rubble, laid largely randomly, but with some areas semi-coursed. For the most part the wall is relatively tall, over a storey in height, but is considerably lower (roughly 2.5 metres) to the S gateway and to the N, where it forms the back wall of a single storey range and a modern style corrugated-metal clad shed / barn. Indeed much of the wall originally had the dual purpose of forming the backs of a range of buildings built against it. A large portions of these buildings have been demolished, with some other portions replaced with modern style structures -for instance the aforementioned corrugated-metal clad shed / barn-, but all still incorporate the original wall in their roadside elevations. Close to the N and S ends of the wall (where its height drops) are vehicle gateways. These are largely identical, with square pillars in squared fieldstone capped with pyramidal sandstone caps and simple tall wrought iron gates with vernacular fleur-de-lis type heads to the railings. The pillars of both gateways have had their caps dislodged, the gate to the S gateway is broken in places and the S pillar of the N gateway is largely smothered in thick shrub growth.