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Saint Columcille's Church (Rathmore)

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Saint Columcille's Church (Rathmore)
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Detached three-bay single-storey Board of First Fruits-style Gothic-style Church of Ireland church, built 1766, with lancet-arch openings, single-bay single-storey gabled vestry projection to north and single-bay three-stage rubble stone tower to west on a square plan with corner pinnacles. Reroofed and renovated, c.1980. Gable-ended roof (gabled to vestry projection). Replacement artificial slate, c.1980. Concrete ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded cut-stone eaves course. Roof to tower not visible behind rubble stone parapet wall (probably flat-roof). Replacement roughcast walls, c.1980, over rubble stone construction. Unpainted. Rubble stone walls to tower. Rubble stone parapet wall with cut-stone coping having elongated pyramidal corner pinnacles. Lancet-arch window openings. Stone sills. Diamond-leaded fixed-pane timber windows. Round-headed blind openings to first stage to tower (possibly originally door opening) with rectangular recessed panel over. Elliptical-headed openings to third stage. Stone sills. Louvered timber panels. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds.Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1780-c.1950.Gateway, c.1780, to east comprising pair of rubble stone piers with wrought iron double gates.

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