Saint Molua's Catholic Church — KILLALOE

Detached five-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, dated 1859, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier Catholic chapel, pre-1840, on site with single-bay single-storey lean-to sacristy to south. Renovated, pre-1963. Pitched slate roof (lean-to to sacristy behind parapet) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables having cross finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Random rubble limestone walls (originally rendered with render removed, pre-1963, surviving in fragment to south) with dressed limestone quoins to corners, cut-limestone date stone/plaque, red brick voussoirs forming elliptical relieving arches (possibly to accommodate proposed additional openings), cut-limestone panel to gable having trefoil moulding, rendered band over, and rendered coping to parapet to sacristy having rendered gabled bellcote over (with pointed-arch aperture having cast-iron bell, and rendered coping having cross finial to apex). Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone sills, rendered, ruled and lined surrounds having chamfered reveals, and fixed-pane timber fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-limestone surround, and replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overlight. Full-height interior with timber pews, timber panelled gallery to first floor to north on clustered colonette pillars, and Gothic-style reredos to chancel (with engaged clustered colonette piers (some paired) on panelled pedestals with panelled dosserets flanking Gothic-style archivolts). Set back from road in own grounds with unpainted rendered panelled piers having profiled stringcourse cornices supporting rendered capping, iron double gates, and iron flanking pedestrian gates.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, pre-1840-present.