church/chapel — COOLCRAHEEN

Freestanding double-height Board of First Fruits style Church of Ireland church, built c.1810, comprising three-bay nave with three-stage entrance bell tower to side (north) and single-bay chancel to side (north). Single-storey extension to north-west corner with later lean-to extension to rear (west). Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods, having carved stone gable copings on carved corbels to northern gable of chancel and southern gable of nave. Crenellated rubble stone parapet wall to bell tower, having stone coping and carved stone corner-sited pinnacles. Rubble stone walls with plinth, having buttresses to front and rear elevations of nave. Dressed stone string courses to bell tower with cruciform recesses to second stage. Pointed arch window openings with limestone sills to nave, having rubble stone voussoirs and replacement bipartite timber framed windows with nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and overlight. Pointed arch window opening with lime stone sill to chancel, having dressed stone voussoirs, now blocked. Pointed arch window opening with limestone sill to chancel, having carved limestone surround and rubble stone voussoirs. Having three lead-lined stained glass lancet windows within tooled limestone intersecting tracery. Square-headed window openings with stone sills to single-storey extension, having rubble stone voussoirs and replacement timber casement windows. Pointed arch louvers to second-stage of bell tower having rubble stone voussoirs, carved stone reveals and slats. Pointed arch door opening to bell tower having chamfered tooled limestone surround and timber battened door with wrought-iron strap hinges. Set within graveyard with rubble stone enclosing walls to sides and front, having square-profile capped gate piers and wrought-iron gate.