Survey Data
Reg No
22401503
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
Date
1825 - 1835
Coordinates
195363, 187555
Date Recorded
01/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1830, with three-bay side elevations, single-bay transepts and with later porch and diagonal buttresses to front elevation. Now roofless. Roughcast rendered limestone rubble walls, with coursed limestone rubble porch. Pointed-arch window openings with limestone sills with remains of timber triple-light stained-glass window to east end. Carved date stone and brick surrounds to openings of porch.
Appraisal
This former church was the first Catholic church erected for the Catholic population of Cloughjordan and its environs, built on the land donated by the Kennedys of Coolnamunna House. Although in a ruinous state, it is of architectural merit. It alludes to the Gothic Revival style with its limestone buttresses and lancet windows. The textural contrast between the ashlar limestone and the roughcast walls provides further interest to the building. The church and the surrounding graveyard form an interesting group of related religious structures.