Reg No
20401101
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
137475, 198179
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Freestanding gable-fronted double-height Roman Catholic church, built c. 1850, with three-bay side elevations. Lean-to bay added to rear, c. 1995. Pitched artificial slate roof with aluminium rainwater goods and cross finial. Cut-limestone entrance front with roughcast rendered walls to sides and rendered walls to rear. Pointed arch opening with cut-limestone surround and replacement timber panelled double leaf doors. Lancet windows with leaded coloured glass. Tripartite window arrangement to entrance and chancel elevations. Chancel openings partly blocked to accommodate reredos. Retaining interior features. Inscribed stone plaque in church "This monument was erected by a few of the parishioners of Kilkeedy in memory of their P.P., the Rev. Podl who died Sept 27th. 1836 requiscat in pace amen". Freestanding concrete belfry to site comprising square-profile columns with domed roof and concrete statue. Remains of cut-stone bellcote, c. 1850, to site.