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Dromkeen Church — DROMKEEN SOUTH

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Dromkeen Church — DROMKEEN SOUTH
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Freestanding cruciform-plan Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built in 1831. Having square- and octagonal-plan two-stage entrance tower to north-west elevation and entrance porch to north-east elevation. Roof now missing, cut limestone coping with carved decorative detailing to gables. Crenellated battlements to tower having corner pinnacles and carved limestone stringcourse beneath. Snecked limestone walls having dressed quoins. Pointed arch openings under carved limestone hoodmouldings south-east elevation and to gable ends of transepts. Square-headed opening under label-moulding to entrance porch. Round-headed openings under hoodmouldings to tower. Pointed arch openings under label-mouldings having carved chamfered limestone surrounds to entrance porch and tower, those to tower now blocked. Remains of rubble limestone medieval church to north-east. Upstanding grave markers to graveyard. Rubble limestone boundary wall to site with square-profile cut limestone piers flanking wrought-iron gates.

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