Poor Claire Colettine Monastery

Attached eight-bay double-height chapel, built 1914, having entrance porch and flat roofed sacristy to west elevation and attached to convent to north. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting, copper coping, rendered bellcote and cross finial to gable ends and central copper cupola. Smooth rendered walls with render eaves course and buttresses to side elevations. Brick walls to porch. Pointed arch window openings, arranged in single and triple arrangements having render block-and start surrounds and stained glass windows. Pointed arch door opening with concrete voussoirs to arch and block-and-start reveals and double-leaf timber battened door. Square-headed door opening to sacristy with timber battened door having overlight. Timber battened roof to interior with render vaulting. Marble altar furniture. Set within grounds of convent.

The convent and this related chapel were funded by Walter Dwyer, a wealthy businessman, so that his daughter Sr Maria Dwyer who was a Poor Clare nun in Belgium, could return to Ireland. In accordance with the ethos of the order, the building is simple in design and function. Together with the convent, lodge and entrance, it forms part of a larger group of notable religious buildings.