Christ Church (Ballyovey) — Tuar Mhic Éadaigh [Toormakeady]

Detached five-bay double-height Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Church of Ireland church, designed 1851; built 1852-3; consecrated 1854, on a rectangular plan comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (north) with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch (south-west) abutting single-bay three-stage tower on a square plan supporting octagonal spire. Closed, 1959. Deconsecrated, 1961. In ruins, 1976. Pitched roofs now missing, lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone coping to gables on drag edged dragged cut-limestone corbel kneelers, and no rainwater goods surviving on ivy-covered eaves retaining some cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked sandstone walls on battered base with drag edged tooled hammered limestone buttresses including drag edged tooled hammered limestone diagonal buttresses to corners having lichen-covered drag edged tooled cut-limestone "slated" coping. Lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement with single lancet window openings (north), drag edged tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with no fittings surviving. Lancet window openings to chancel (north) centred on lancet "Trinity Window", drag edged tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with no fittings surviving. Lancet window opening in tripartite arrangement to entrance (south) front with quatrefoil "Rose Window" to gable, drag edged tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with no fittings surviving. Interior including vestibule (south-west); pointed-arch door opening into nave with no fittings surviving; interior in ruins with ivy-covered plastered slate hung surface finish, roof construction now missing retaining drag edged dragged cut-limestone polygonal corbels, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing overgrown stepped dais to chancel (north) below "Trinity Window". Set in unkempt landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site with tuck pointed drag edged tooled limestone ashlar chamfered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates.