Survey Data
Reg No
14336011
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Graveyard/cemetery
Date
1815 - 1820
Coordinates
302148, 252066
Date Recorded
25/06/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached square-profile three-stage castellated and pinnacled Church of Ireland church tower, built c.1817, with the ruins of the church walls to the east. Rubble stone walls with ashlar limestone pinnacles, cappings to castellations, string courses, and dressings to the pointed-arched openings. Graveyard to site. Dressed stone gate piers with pair of wrought-iron gates set in rubble stone wall. Modern concrete wall and gates to extended graveyard to west.
Appraisal
Though the main body of this former church is now in ruins, the tower remains a notable and dominant structure in the surrounding area. The setting of the tower is enhanced by the graveyard to the site, which retains many carved stone grave markers, such as the remains of a wall monument on the west face of the tower, that is of artistic interest. The graveyard now contains Roman Catholic, as well as Church of Ireland interments.