Saint Mary's Catholic Church — LEGGAGH

Freestanding Roman Catholic church on cruciform plan, built c. 1865, comprising five-bay nave, two-bay transepts to the north and south elevations having flat-roofed extensions to the gable ends, and a shallow chancel to the east. Bellcote with stepped buttresses attached to the south side of nave (towards the west end of nave) with gabled entrance porch adjacent to the east. Lean-to additions/returns and gabled entrance porches to the east sides of transepts. Pitched natural slate roofs with carved limestone cross finials to gables. Raised cut stone verges to gabled porches. Pointed arch open work ashlar limestone bellcote having wrought-iron cross finial over. Snecked sandstone masonry walls with ashlar sandstone quoins and having chamfered ashlar limestone and sandstone plinth course. Pointed arch window openings having chamfered cut limestone surrounds and simple stained glass windows. Three graded pointed arch window openings to entrance gable (west), gable ends of transepts, and to chancel gable. Pictorial stained glass windows to chancel windows. Blank carved limestone triangular/trefoil motifs to gable apexes. Pointed arch entrance to south porch adjacent to bellcote (south) having chamfered sandstone surround and timber battened door with carved limestone step. Pointed arch entrances to transepts having sandstone chamfered surrounds and timber battened doors. Interior has timber panelled ceiling and rendered walls. Interior reordered, original altar goods removed. Prominently sited on hillock adjacent to crossroad junction, and to the northeast of Ballinamuck and to the southwest of Moyne. Site surrounded by modern boundary wall with modern gateway to the west.