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Catholic Church of Our Lady and Saint Kieran — Ballylooby

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Catholic Church of Our Lady and Saint Kieran — Ballylooby
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Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted three-bay nave Roman Catholic church, built c.1820, with ashlar limestone portal to front, and boiler room and single-storey flat roofed sacristy extension to north-east. Pitched slate roof with bellcote, stone copings, cross finials and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls. Pointed-arch window openings to nave with painted stone tracery, stained-glass windows and concrete sills. Five-light window to rear elevation with stained glass and ogee heads to lights, circular windows set high in transepts. Pointed-arch door openings to transepts with timber battened doors. Four-centred arch door to front elevation set in portal with chamfered limestone surround under hood moulding. Interior has ornate marble reredos and open timber hammer beam roof. Cut limestone gate piers and boundary wall to front of site with wrought-iron gates and railings.

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