Survey Data
Reg No
14405002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Church/chapel
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
296171, 245613
Date Recorded
22/04/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Board of First Fruits church, built c.1800, with two-bay side elevation to nave and three-stage castellated and pinnacled tower to west. Pitched slate roof with limestone copings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with ashlar limestone string courses and dressings to blocked pointed arched openings. Rock-faced limestone gate piers with cast-iron double gates set in rendered boundary walls. Graveyard to site. 1798 date plaque set in boundary wall c.1998.
Appraisal
Saint Keiran's Church exhibits many features which are typical of Church of Ireland churches which were built at the turn of the eighteenth century in Ireland, with funds from the Board of First Fruits. The simple architectural form of the building is articulated with limestone dressings, such as the string courses, pinnacles and surrounds to the openings. The setting of the church is enhanced by many of the carved stone grave markers to the site.