Castle Oliver was built in 1849 by the Oliver-Gascoigne sisters, and it's a typical country house of the 18th-19th century, surrounded by beautiful parklands.
The demesne of their country house is enclosed within long and high walls which run in a rectangular shape for miles. On the highest point of the property is a folly, an architectural item used to fill a void in the landscape, usually with no real dwelling use.
The access to the property is through two Gothic-style gate lodges.
The second gate lodge on the southeast side of the demesne walls is the one featured in this page.
The entrance is a simple iron gate between two tall gate posts topped with pyramidal caps, and two smaller pillars on either sides of the same style.
The roofless stone structure of a square tower with stepped crenellations flanked by a circular tower with a crenellated top stands a few metres away from the gate.
The interior of this latter structure shows traces of three floors, with fireplaces.
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