What is recorded here

St Nicholas Church in County Dublin lost its chancel and roof before the mid-17th century, leaving a narrow stone nave where Austin Cooper still lies northeast of the missing sanctuary. The building remains plain, rectangular and east-west, with opposed western doorways, southern slit openings and a tall western window above a double bellcote. What is gone can be imagined: a crowded chapel, a buried man, a abandoned prayer room. What remains is exact enough to walk through and picture the loss.

Dedicated to St Nicholas this church probably fell into ruin in the mid-17th century. The church is a plain rectangular building, aligned east-west and built of random rubble masonry. Only the nave survives (int. dims. L 10.25m, Wth 5.10m, wall T 0.95m). There are opposed pointed segmental arched doorways in the W end of the nave. The interior is lit by narrow slit opes on the south wall and a tall round arched window at loft level in the W gable which contains a double bellcote. The chancel arch is all that survives of the chancel. It is of pointed segmental type. Austin Cooper's tomb is located to the northeast on the site of the chancel. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 23 January 2015

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