Saint Barrahane's Church (Castlehaven) — Castletownshend

Freestanding Board of First Fruits style Church of Ireland church, built 1827, comprising four-stage crenulated entrance bell tower, four-bay nave, single-bay chancel, and single-bay transept to north elevation with adjoined vestry. Pitched slate roofs with limestone copings. Hipped slate roof to vestry. Limestone crenellations with corner pinnacles to tower. Snecked stone walls, having corner buttresses and ashlar limestone string courses to tower. Carved stone panel to east elevation of vestry, with floating capitals to corners. Pointed arch window openings having tooled limestone sills, hood mouldings and block-and-start surrounds. Stained glass windows to nave comprising a pair of lancets with traceried overlights. Timber framed bipartite twelve-over-twelve timber sliding sash windows with trefoils and traceried overlights, to nave and transept. Stained glass window to chancel (east) comprising triple of trefoil-headed lancets with trefoil overlights. Single and paired openings to tower, with timber windows and timber louvres. Blind arches to top stage. Tooled limestone sill, hood moulding and three fixed trefoil-headed lancet windows to vestry. Pointed arch door opening having limestone stepped approach, tooled limestone surround, label moulding and double-leaf panelled timber door. Interior features including quarry tiles, mosaics, carved timber organ gallery, timber panelling and altar rail to chancel, timber lectern, memorial plaques, built-in carved timber seating and carved limestone baptismal font having carved timber cap with gilted bird to north transept. Located on an elevated site and approached limestone steps to the west.