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Saint Kieran's Church (Modreeny) — The Square

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Saint Kieran's Church (Modreeny) — The Square
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Cruciform-plan Church of Ireland church, built 1837, with three-stage tower and spire to north elevation. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron down-pipes, and carved limestone pinnacles and copings. Ashlar limestone tower with chamfered corners, diagonal buttresses and pinnacles, and surmounted by octagonal-plan spire with clock and louvres with carved stone roof-lets. Tower flanked by single-bay porches with traceried windows in sides. Coursed roughly-dressed limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins and plinth. Pointed-arch openings having tooled limestone surrounds and carved limestone hood-mouldings. Some replacement uPVC and some stained-glass windows. Replacement timber battened double-leaf door to tower with strap hinges. Stained-glass windows to west, south and east windows. Braced A-framed timber trusses to roof, with boarded ceiling above. Roughly dressed limestone boundary walls to site. Green to front of church and lawn to rear.

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