Catholic Church of Mary Immaculate — Gob an Choire [Achill Sound], Acaill [Achill Islan

Detached five-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, designed 1925-30; built 1928-30, on a rectangular plan; single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (north) front. Pitched slate roof with quatrefoil-perforated crested clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered tooled cut-sandstone coping to gables with Celtic Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on tooled cut-sandstone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone walls on tooled cut-sandstone cushion course on battered base with snecked rock faced sandstone battered piers to corners having tooled cut-sandstone "slated" coping. Paired round-headed window openings in square-headed recesses between snecked rock faced sandstone battered buttresses with cut-sandstone chamfered sills, and margined tooled hammered sandstone block-and-start surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Round-headed "Trinity Window" (south) with cut-sandstone chamfered sills, and margined tooled hammered sandstone block-and-start surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings centred on fixed-pane fitting having leaded stained glass panel. Round-headed door opening (porch) with poured concrete threshold, and margined tooled cut-sandstone block-and-start surround having engaged colonette-detailed stepped reveals with chevron-detailed archivolt framing timber boarded double doors. Round-headed stepped "Trinity Window" (gable) with cut-sandstone chamfered sills, and margined tooled hammered sandstone block-and-start surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Interior including vestibule (north); round-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight; full-height interior open into roof with arcaded choir gallery (north) below "Trinity Window", tiled central aisle in mosaic tiled frame between cruciform-detailed timber pews, paired Romanesque-style timber stations centred on timber panelled confessional boxes in round-headed alcoves, exposed round arch braced strutted collared timber roof construction on beaded corbels with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling, and cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (south) retaining arcaded communion railings with round-headed tripartite arcade on clustered colonettes framing cut-veined white marble Romanesque-style altar (1930) below stained glass "Trinity Window" (----). Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with tuck pointed margined rock faced sandstone ashlar panelled piers to perimeter having tooled cut-sandstone "slated" capping.