Saint John's Church (Rathmacknee) — RATHMACKNEE GREAT

Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1813, on a rectangular plan; single-bay three-stage tower (west) on a square plan. Dismantled, 1961. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now missing with cut-granite coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-granite eaves. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth; rendered surface finish (tower) on rendered chamfered plinth with cut-granite diagonal obelisk pinnacle-topped "arrow loop"-detailed rendered piers to corners (bell stage). Pointed-arch window openings with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite monolithic surrounds framing wrought iron fittings. Pointed-arch window opening (east) with cut-granite sill, and cut-granite monolithic surround framing wrought iron fitting. Lancet window opening (tower) with cut-granite sill, and cut-granite monolithic surround framing wrought iron fitting. Square-headed blind openings (second stage) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite monolithic surrounds with hood mouldings framing rendered infill. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite monolithic surrounds with hood mouldings. Interior including vestibule (west) with limestone flagged floor; round-headed door opening into nave with no fittings surviving; interior in ruins with encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel (east). Set in unkempt grounds on a slightly elevated site with piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.