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Freestanding cruciform-plan Roman Catholic Church, built c.1820, having two-bay nave, and with four-bay lower twentieth-century extension to altar end, and glazed entrance porch to north-west transept. Pitched slate roof, having stone copings to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered and painted walls with rendered plinth. Gable to south-west has stone cross finial, with square-plan piers to bases having conical caps and with patera motif to decorative band below, surmounted by fleur-de-lys. Copings of this gable have decorative corbel table below. Pointed-arch niches to lower part of this gable, with moulded surrounds and containing statues. Pointed-arch windows throughout, with stained glass and stone sills, and smaller windows flanking statue niches. Triple-light window to south-west gable, having moulded string sill course. Transept gables have stone Y-tracery to windows, and apse has oculus. Pointed-arch doorways to north-west and north-east with timber doors, former being main entrance. Interior has choir balcony to south-west end with glazed screens below, exposed king-post timber truss roof supported on stone corbels, and sheeted timber ceiling. Cross-groin vault above altar crossing. Set back from road on elevated site with car park to north-west incorporating Marian grotto, fields to south-east and rendered boundary wall to road. Bellstand to grounds with cast-iron support structure and bell with raised lettering 'PRESENTED BY MICHAEL DONOVAN TO THE PARISH OF ABBEY KNOCKMOY REV. JOHN GREALY, P.P. 1829'.
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