Ballyseedy Church, County Kerry

What is recorded here

Ballyseedy Church has its bellcote off-centre, like a wedding guest edging out of the photograph. A brave attempt at keeping a low profile from the only part of the building that shouts across the parish.

Freestanding double-height Gothic Revival style Church of Ireland church, built c. 1870, with five-bay nave, single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south elevation, single-bay double-height lower chancel to east gable end having single-bay single-storey lean-to vestry projection to north-east corner and rose window to west gable end having bellcote to gable. Pitched slate roof with grey clay ridge comb, limestone copings to gables, plinth to east gable, off-centre bellcote to west gable, lower chancel roof, and having cast-iron gutters, hoppers and downpipes. Snecked limestone walls with red sandstone sill course and buttresses. Painted rendered walls to west gable. Lancet openings with red sandstone surrounds, tooled limestone sills and stained glass panels. Rose window to west gable containing four quatrefoils. Paired lancets to chancel. Double-leaf boarded door to porch. Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers and mausolea, c. 1870-present. Gateway, built c. 1870, to north comprising pair of stone piers with wrought-iron gates. Gateway, built c. 1870, to east comprising pair of cut-stone piers with cast-iron gates.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21303801

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