Saint Brendan's Catholic Church — Cloondara

Detached single-cell Roman Catholic church, dated 1835, having three-bay nave elevation, altar to east, and single-storey three-bay sacristy attached to the east end. Pitched slate roof with rendered bellcote having cross finial over and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with smooth rendered borders. Cut limestone date plaque to the south elevation, adjacent to the doorway. Pointed arch window openings with twelve-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows having intersecting tracery to heads, painted sills and painted render surrounds. Pointed arch door opening to the west end of the south elevation having timber battened double doors and overlight. Sacristy to rear (east) with pitched slate roof, rendered chimneystack, painted roughcast rendered walls and square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and timber battened door having plain overlight. Glazed interior entrance porch/vestibule to doorway to church. Timber gallery to west end supported on cast-iron columns and having decorative timber parapet. Set in graveyard with gable facing road. Collection of cut stone grave markers to site. Ruins of medieval church (LF013-018----), containing early medieval fabric, to the south of the church. Rendered boundary walls to site with water eroded limestone coping over. Main entrance gates to the southwest, comprising a pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) with chamfered plinths, pyramidal capping and with double-leaf metal gates. Located to the north of Cloondara.