Ballysakeery Church (Ballysakeery) — LISGLENNON

Detached four-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, under construction 1806; complete 1810, on a rectangular plan comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east) with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. "Improved", 1853-4. Closed, 1980. Now in ruins. Pitched roofs now missing with tooled cut-limestone coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on tooled cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast coursed rubble limestone walls with concealed hammered limestone flush quoins to corners; fine roughcast surface finish (tower) with tooled cut-limestone stringcourse (bell stage) supporting battlemented parapet having tooled cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, timber Y-mullions, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing fixed-pane timber fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Cusped "Trinity Window" (east) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, and drag edged tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening (tower) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing applied timber Y-mullions on louvered fittings. Interior in ruins with remains of plastered slate hung surface finish, and Tudor-headed chancel arch framing overgrown stepped dais to chancel (east) below "Trinity Window". Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone pyramidal capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed looped wrought iron double gates.