Saint Finian's Catholic Church — Dromin

Freestanding double-height Roman Catholic church, built 1826. T-plan, two-bays to nave, single-bay to transepts; four stage pinnacled stone entrance tower, added 1843, terminating in broach spire, added 1877. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, stone verge coping to gables with stone crucifix finials, cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted roughcast-rendered walling, painted smooth rendered plinth and block-and-start quoins, squared-and-snecked limestone walling to tower, tooled limestone block-and-start quoins, string courses to each stage, tooled limestone pinnacled clasping buttresses to east gable. Pointed arch window openings, painted smooth rendered block-and-start surround, smooth rendered panel to plinth, flush chamfered sills, painted timber tracery, leaded lights; triple lancet window to west, stained glass lights. Pointed arch door opening to tower, dressed limestone chamfered surround, painted timber vertically-sheeted double doors, surmounted by stone date plaque "Erected Anno Domini MDCCCXLIII in Honour and Glory to God"; pointed arch openings to east elevations of north and south transepts, painted smooth rendered block-and-start surrounds, painted timber vertically-sheeted double doors. Interior with timber sheeted ceiling, painted plaster walling, carved timber pews, timber floor, encaustic tiles to central aisle; balconies to north and south transepts, choir loft to east; decorative carved marble altar to west. Church set back from roadway on slightly elevated site, graveyard to east.