Catholic Church of Our Lady and Saint Joseph — Carragh

Detached twelve-bay double-height Hiberno Romanesque-style Catholic Church, dated 1958; built 1958-60; opened 1960, with round-headed openings, single-bay single-storey bowed chapel projections to east and to west, eight-bay single-storey flat-roofed sacristy projection to north-east with gabled advanced entrance bays, single-bay double-height bowed apse to north gable end and single-bay four-stage entrance tower to south gable end on a square plan having gabled doorcase. Gable-ended roof with slate (half-conical to chapels and to apse; pyramidal to tower on rendered corbels). Concrete ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves band. Flat-roof to sacristy projection. Bitumen felt. Rendered walls. Unpainted. Rendered piers along east and west elevations. Square buttressed piers to corners with apertures to top and pyramidal concrete capping. Concrete coping to sacristy projection (and to gables to advanced entrance bays). Round-headed window openings. Concrete sills (sill course to upper stage to tower). Fixed-pane windows. Square-headed door opening to tower. Rendered doorcase comprising Hiberno Romanesque surround with gable over. Round-headed flanking door openings. Rendered hood mouldings over. Timber panelled double doors (overlights to flanking door openings). Full-height interior. Tiled floor. Timber pews. Glazed timber panelled internal porch to south with timber panelled choir gallery over to first floor. Scalloped barrel-vaulted 'coffered' ceiling. Round arch to chancel (with flanking arches to side chapels). Marble altar furniture. Continuous hood moulding over openings to apse. Set back from road in own grounds. Lawns and landscaped grounds to sides and to rear.