Saint Joseph's Catholic Church — Ballyfoyle

Detached six-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1866-72, on site of earlier Catholic chapel, pre-1840, comprising five-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height lower chancel to east having single-bay single-storey sacristy to south-east. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles having decorative crested ridge to nave, cut-stone chamfered coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, cut-limestone buttressed gabled bellcote to apex to sacristy (with trefoil-headed aperture on chamfered course having chamfered reveals, cast-iron bell, and cut-limestone coping having cross finial to apex), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone chamfered eaves. Irregular coursed tooled cut-limestone walls with cut-limestone buttresses (stepped to entrance (west) front) having cut-limestone coping, and cut-limestone plaque over entrance bay having cut-limestone pointed-arch surround supporting squared limestone voussoirs. Trefoil-headed lancet window openings (some paired; paired to entrance (west) front in pointed-arch frame having quatrefoil to arch, and hood moulding over supporting squared limestone voussoirs; paired to chancel having quatrefoil to gable) on carved cut-limestone sill course with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, squared limestone voussoirs, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-limestone surround having carved rebated reveals, hood moulding over supporting squared limestone voussoirs, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overpanel. Full-height interior open into roof with glazed timber panelled internal porch incorporating glazed timber panelled double doors having glazed timber panelled re-entrant flanking doors, timber floors incorporating herring-bone pattern, timber pews, quatrefoil panelled timber panelled gallery to first floor on Doric columns, bull-nose reveals to window openings, exposed timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels, pointed-arch chancel arch with chamfered reveals, and Gothic-style altar furniture. Set in own grounds with random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site having rubble limestone piers, and iron gate. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, pre-1840-present.