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Coolaghflags Catholic Chapel

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Coolaghflags Catholic Chapel
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Detached six-bay single- and two-storey Catholic chapel, c.1750, incorporating fabric of medieval church, c.1500, on site comprising four-bay single-storey nave with single-bay two-stage entrance bay to west on a square plan, and remains of single-bay single-storey range to east. Restored, 1818. Decommissioned, post-1896. Disused, 1903. Now in ruins. Pitched slate roofs now gone with rubble-stone bellcote to west (with rubble stone piers on a stepped base flanking camber-headed opening having dressed rubble stone voussoirs, bell now missing, and rubble stone stepped parapet), and no rainwater goods surviving on dressed rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls (mostly collapsed to range to east) with slight batter to base to entrance bay, and dressed stone quoins to corners. Pointed-arch window openings to nave with no sills, red brick dressings, and no fittings surviving. Outline of square-headed window openings to entrance bay with one having cut-limestone sill, one having cut-limestone surround incorporating mullion forming bipartite elliptical-headed arrangement, hood moulding over, and random rubble stone infill. Square-headed door opening with no fittings surviving. Set back from road in own grounds.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, c.1750-pre-1903.

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