Carrigallen Church

Detached single-cell Board of First Fruits style Church of Ireland church, built in 1814. Three-bay nave with porch to south side and with three-stage tower to west having crenellations and pinnacles. Castellations to porch and to gable ends of nave. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles. Roughcast rendered walls with tooled stone quoins and string courses to tower. Carved four-centred-arched door opening with block-and-start stone surround, hood moulding and timber battened double door. Flat-arched window openings with cut stone voussoirs, block-and-start surrounds and stone sills with replacement uPVC windows and traceried stained glass windows. Grave markers and ruin of fifteenth-century church to graveyard. Site enclosed by random stone wall with ashlar gate piers and cast-iron gates.

As a public place of worship this church is of social importance within the community. Its modest form is enhanced by decorative features such as castellations, a Perpendicular-style doorcase and traceried windows. As such it is architecturally important. The adjacent remains of a fifteenth-century church are archaeologically significant and reflects the importance of this site as an ecclesiastical centre for over five hundred years.