Church in Rathcormack, County Cork

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NE of centre in graveyard (CO044-049001-). Rectangular church with gabled porch at W end and gabled transept mid-way along N wall. Church lit by three windows in both N and S walls with wooden Y-tracery and central E window with switch-line tracery. Unusual bellcote atop main W gable with classical pediment and entablature; elaborate pediment on N gable of transept. According to 1694 report church here 'much damnified by the Irish in the late war (1641-2), but now in pretty good repair' (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 371); described by Smith (1750, vol. 1, 158) as 'a pretty parish church and steeple'; 1837 report noted that 'when, and at what cost built unknown, enlarged in 1828' (Brady ibid.). Body of church late 18th century in appearance (according to local information built in 1775 but no confirmation of this in Brady 1863), while porch and transept appear to beadditions of c. 1828; porch in style of Pain brothers (see CO087-03601-, CO086-05902-); transept very similar to lodge of Maryborough House (CO074-089---) in Douglas of c. 1830. Known as Christ Church.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO044-049002

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