Catholic Church of Saint Mary and Saint Michael — Tooreen

Detached five-bay double-height Catholic church, designed 1924; built 1924-5; opened 1926, comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height apse (east) on a half-octagonal plan with single-bay single-storey projecting porch to entrance (west) front on a half-octagonal plan. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. "Improved", 2000[?]. Pitched slate roof overhanging half-octagonal slate roof (east) with half-octagonal slate roof to porch, clay ridge tiles terminating in cut-limestone Celtic Cross finials to apexes, dentilated open bed pediment to gable to entrance (west) front, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on box eaves retaining cast-iron conical hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered plinth with rendered buttresses to entrance (west) front having rendered coping. Round-headed window openings with concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass quatrefoils. Round-headed window openings to apse (east) with concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. "Rose Window" to gable to entrance (west) front, concealed dressings with pointed hood moulding over framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins centred on stained glass roundel. Round-headed window opening to porch, concealed dressings with hood moulding over on label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having leaded stained glass panel. Round-headed opposing door openings to "cheeks", concealed dressings with hood mouldings over on label stops framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Interior including vestibule (west) with stained glass window (1946); round-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight centred on leaded stained glass quatrefoil; full-height interior open into roof with stained glass "Rose Window" (west), carpeted central aisle between trefoil-detailed timber pews, Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (undated), exposed braced collared timber roof construction on corbels with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling, and round-headed chancel arch framing carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, ----, with carpeted stepped "predella" supporting cut-veined white marble panelled altar below stained glass windows (1926). Set in own grounds.