Claremorris Library — D'Alton Street

The saved account records: Detached five-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1828

The saved account records: extant 1838, on a cruciform plan comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height lower chancel to crossing (east) with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan supporting octagonal spire.

The saved account records: Repaired, 1983-4, to accommodate alternative use.

The saved account records: repointed tuck pointed snecked limestone walls to tower on battered base with benchmark-inscribed drag edged tooled limestone ashlar stepped piers to corners supporting "Cavetto"-detailed drag edged tooled cut-limestone octagonal pinnacles centred on battlemented parapets having lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone "saddleback" coping.

Claremorris Library — D'Alton Street matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A church erected with financial support from the Board of First Fruits (fl. 1711-1833) representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of Claremorris with the architectural value of the composition, 'a handsome building of ancient English architecture with a light steeple' (Lewis 1837 I, 336), confirmed by such attributes as the cruciform plan form, aligned along a liturgically-correct axis; the construction in a rough cut local limestone offset by sheer dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship; the slender profile of the openings underpinning a "medieval" Gothic theme… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.