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What is recorded here

Situated on a natural rise of ground overlooking the River Shannon to the W with a nearby castle (TN025-015) to the N. The poorly preserved remains of a rectangular late medieval parish church (TN025-016001) built with roughly coursed sandstone rubble. The E, S and W walls stand to full height with only the partial wall returns of the N wall surviving. The W end of the church may have had two floors as indicated by a destroyed window at first-floor level. There is also a single-light window at ground-floor level in this gable as well as a destroyed single-light window at the E end of the S wall. The E gable has a partially destroyed twin-light traceried window in the centre. The destroyed doorway at the W end of the S wall was described in the OS Letters as a pointed sandstone door (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 11-12). In the centre of the S wall is a segmental-arched tomb-niche and at the E end is a four-centred arched piscina with moulded bases, chamfered jambs and a six-lobed marigold pattern around the drain-hole. The graveyard around the church contains eighteenth- and nineteenth-century headstones. The top soil cover has been removed during a recent graveyard scheme. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
A rectangular late medieval parish church; significance relates to its location and association with a nearby castle and natural landscape features.

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
No visible remains or recorded as destroyed

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