
What is recorded here
Doon Catholic Church in Doon West has a farmyard where its churchyard was. A hen can now arrive late, march straight to the front and interrupt proceedings without her mother discussing it all the way home.
Freestanding double-height Catholic church, built 1830, on a T-shaped plan. Closed, 1972, and partly dismantled with entrance remodelled. Comprising two-bay double-height nave with lancet arch window openings, single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south elevations and entrance bay to east gable end having bellcote over gable. Pitched intersecting graded slate roof with clay ridge tiles and limestone bellcote. Coursed random rubble walls. Pointed arch openings, all window and door frames removed. Large opening formed in east wall with concrete lintel and reveals. Churchyard to site now in use as farmyard. Rendered rubble walls with curving walls flanking entrance to site.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21300407
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