presbytery/parochial/curate's house

Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built 1900[?]; occupied 1901, on a symmetrical plan with single-bay two-storey side elevations. Refenestrated. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on paired rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves[?] retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement fixed-pane uPVC fittings. Square-headed window openings centred on square-headed window opening (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with trefoil-detailed cast-iron railings to perimeter centred on cast-iron gate.

A parochial house erected for Reverend Jeremiah O'Toole (b. 1869), incumbent of nearby Saint Brendan's Catholic Church (1822; replaced 1958), Moyna, representing an integral component of the built heritage of County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a streamlined "Venetian" doorcase; and the uniform proportions of the openings on each floor with the principal "apartments" defined by polygonal bay windows. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a parochial house making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan setting.