Coolcullen Church (Mothell)

Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1792, with single-bay single-storey vestry to north-east. Renovated, 1814, with single-bay three-stage entrance tower added to west on a square plan. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves having iron brackets. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Random rubble stone walls (probably originally rendered with remains of unpainted render to north) with cut-stone surround to gable to west, squared rubble stone advanced corner piers to tower, cut-stone stringcourse to each stage, and battlemented parapet on paired cut-stone stringcourses having crow-stepped corner finials. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-stone sills, Y-mullions forming bipartite pointed-arch arrangement (tripartite pointed-arch arrangement to east), and fixed-pane timber fittings having lattice glazing (leaded stained glass panels to east). Pointed-arch blind openings to first stage to tower with cut-stone sills. Pointed-arch openings to top (bell) stage with cut-stone sills, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to tower with rubble stone voussoirs, and Gothic-style timber panelled door. Pointed-arch door opening to vestry with rubble stone voussoirs, and timber panelled door. Full-height interior with timber pews, cut-stone wall monument, and raised chancel having Gothic-style timber panelled lectern on an octagonal plan. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having cut-stone monolithic piers supporting iron double gates.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1792-present.