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Saint Ultan's Church (Ardbraccan)

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Saint Ultan's Church (Ardbraccan)
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Detached four-bay gable-fronted Church of Ireland church, c.1770, now out of use. Built of ashlar limestone on front (west) elevation with raised quoins to corners. Entrance front surmounted by a closed pediment with single circular opening with carved stone surrounds. Twelve-panel timber door to entrance. Other elevations built of rendered limestone over limestone plinth with cornice below roofline. Entrance to church on the west gable which is entered through a Tuscan porch with closed pediment. Side elevations lit by four round-headed windows with Y-tracery, carved stone surrounds and stone sills. Chancel attached to east which is lit by a single round-headed window on east elevation. Vault beneath chancel with stone steps and cast-iron railings. Freestanding late medieval church tower to east of present church acts as bell tower. Set in graveyard with numerous grave markers mainly from late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Re-erected early seventeenth-century monument known as the ‘Montgomery Monument’, with carved Elizabethan figures is located to the south of the bell tower. Carved stone gate piers and cast-iron gates to east.

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