Saint Matthew's Catholic Church — Main Street

Detached gable-fronted Gothic style Roman Catholic church on cruciform-plan, built between 1902 and 1906, having five-bay nave elevations, single-bay transepts to the northwest and the southeast, four-stage bell tower on square-plan attached to southeast side of entrance front (southwest) and a shallow chancel to the northeast having a three- single-storey additions attached to either side (northwest and southeast). Gable-fronted porch to the centre of the entrance gable (southwest) having extensive cut limestone detailing. Lean-to extension to the chancel gable. Pitched natural slate roofs with cast-iron ridge crestings, raised cut limestone verges with carved limestone crosses to gable ends, cut limestone chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Spired cut limestone pinnacle to north end of gable-front. Castellated parapet with spired and carved pinnacles to tower. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls with cut limestone quoins, carved limestone string courses and engaged ashlar limestone buttresses to nave elevations. Plaque to southeast elevation of tower. Paired pointed arch window openings to gable-front with cut limestone block-and-start surrounds, carved limestone tracery, stained glass windows and continuous limestone hoodmoulding. Trefoil-headed/cusped lancet openings to nave elevations with cut limestone block-and-start surrounds, chamfered cut limestone sills and carved limestone hoodmouldings. Five-light pointed arch window opening to chancel gable having carved limestone geometric tracery, stained glass windows, chamfered cut limestone sills and carved limestone hoodmouldings. Pointed arch openings to fourth stage of tower (belfry level) comprising paired trefoil-headed/cusped lancet openings, having louvered fittings and carved limestone quatrefoil opening with carved limestone hoodmoulding. Blind four-centred arch with carved tympanum to cut limestone gable-fronted porch, having carved hoodmoulding and square-headed door opening with double leaf timber panelled door, the latter flanked by marble colonnettes and approached by cut limestone steps. Square-headed opening to southwest elevation of tower with similar blind four-centred arch, carved hoodmoulding and square-headed door opening, approached by cut limestone steps and having double leaf timber panelled door flanked by marble colonnettes. Exposed timber braced roof to interior with decorative floor tiling, carved marble reredos to north transept, carved marble baptismal font, granite altar and carved timber confessionals. Carved timber gallery over nave entrance reached via cast-iron spiral staircase. Stained glass windows by Mayer of Munich. Set in own grounds recessed from the road, having ashlar limestone gable-fronted gate piers with recessed trefoil-headed/cusped panels and cast-iron railings, pedestrian and double-leaf carriage gates. Located to the northwest end of Ballymahon.