What is recorded here
Foulkscourt and Fertagh still share one region, but the window belongs to Fertagh. The completed church is no longer standing at Foulkscourt. What remains is a displaced fragment, pulled into another building and made to answer a new address. That is why the place feels absent even when the stone is still visible.
From the church of the Augustinian abbey of Fertagh (KK0080047001-) located c. 3.5km to the NNE. The W doorway (KK008-153----) and the E window (KK008-153001-) were removed in 1799 and reconstructed in the C of I church in Johnstown (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 294). The large E window of cut limestone chamfered externally, consists of four round-headed lights surmounted by flowing tracery within a pointed window. The tracery is somewhat unbalanced, giving it a rather clumsy appearance. The pointed hood-moulding terminates with horizontal stops from which vine leaves flow on the dexter side and ivy leaves on the sinister side, similar to the treatment of the stops on the other window (KK008-152002-) from Fertagh, now inserted in the RC church. See attached photographs: KK008-153001-_01 General view of window in E gable - exterior KK008-153001-_02 Detail of E window - exterior KK008-153001-_03 Detail of head of E window - exterior Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 July 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Saint Mary's Church (Fertagh)church/chapel · 5 yd
Johnstown Garda Síochána Stationgarda station/constabulary barracks · 141 yd
Enclosure in FoulkscourtEnclosure · 230 yd
Street fieldArchaeological place · 3.1 mi
Kildrinagh WoodForest · 4.6 mi
Anker's IslandIsland · 9.4 mi