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Freestanding Church of Ireland church on cruciform-plan, built 1824 and altered 1861, comprising nave with single-bay transepts to the north and south, a shallow projecting chancel to the east and a three-stage tower on square-plan to the west having buttresses to corners (on square-plan, chamfered to become octagonal-plan at belfry stage) rising to pinnacles on octagonal-plan over. Currently out of use. Pitched natural slate roofs with raised cut stone verges, moulded limestone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Parapet to tower dressed limestone battlements/crenellations. Coursed dressed limestone walls over chamfered dressed limestone plinth. Moulded string courses to tower. Cut stone plaque to north face of tower, over main entrance. Triple and four-light pointed arch window openings with chamfered dressed limestone surrounds, timber intersecting tracery, leaded quarry-glazed windows and having hoodmouldings over. Pointed arch openings to belfry level of tower having chamfered dressed limestone surrounds, timber intersecting tracery, timber louvered vents and cut stone hoodmouldings over; square-headed window openings to second stage of tower with chamfered dressed limestone surrounds, and quarry-glazed windows. Pointed arch door opening to the north face of tower having chamfered dressed limestone surround, timber panelled double-doors, block overlight and hoodmoulding over. Set back from road in rectangular enclosure. Ruinous single-storey outbuilding/building to the east. Site surrounded by two graveyards, Church of Ireland graveyard to the south (surrounding church) and a Roman Catholic graveyard to the north, with collection of upstanding, recumbent and box-type grave markers. Site and graveyard to north surrounded by rubble limestone boundary walls. Gateway to churchyard to the west, comprising a pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having dressed limestone capstones and wrought-iron flat bar gates. Entrance to Roman Catholic graveyard to the west comprising a pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having dressed limestone capstones and wrought-iron flat bar gates. Wrought-iron turnstile gate located adjacent to gateway to the northwest. Site located on elevated ground to the southwest of Ballinalee.
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