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Saint Kevin's Catholic Church — Carrigeen

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Saint Kevin's Catholic Church — Carrigeen
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Detached five-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1893, incorporating fabric of earlier Catholic chapel, pre-1840, on site with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to west. Renovated, post-1965, with interior reordered. Pitched slate roof with decorative clay ridge tiles, cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat roof to porch with rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered quoins to corners, rendered stepped buttresses to south, and rendered panel to gable having cross motif. Pointed-arch window openings (round-headed window opening to west with paired round-headed window openings to porch) with painted sills, rendered surrounds, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled double doors. Full-height interior open into roof reordered, post-1965, with timber pews, carved timber stations, diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled gallery to first floor on timber posts having spandrels, and open timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels. Set back from line of road in own grounds with painted rendered boundary wall to perimeter of site. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, pre-1840-present. (iii) Freestanding belfry, dated 1932, comprising iron pylon frame on a square plan with inscribed plaque, and cast-iron bell.

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