Garraun Catholic Chapel

Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1830, with three-bay side elevations, single-bay transepts and with later porch and diagonal buttresses to front elevation. Now roofless. Roughcast rendered limestone rubble walls, with coursed limestone rubble porch. Pointed-arch window openings with limestone sills with remains of timber triple-light stained-glass window to east end. Carved date stone and brick surrounds to openings of porch.

This former church was the first Catholic church erected for the Catholic population of Cloughjordan and its environs, built on the land donated by the Kennedys of Coolnamunna House. Although in a ruinous state, it is of architectural merit. It alludes to the Gothic Revival style with its limestone buttresses and lancet windows. The textural contrast between the ashlar limestone and the roughcast walls provides further interest to the building. The church and the surrounding graveyard form an interesting group of related religious structures.