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Irwin Mortuary Chapel — KILMURRY

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Irwin Mortuary Chapel — KILMURRY
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Detached gabled mortuary chapel, built in 1865 in memory of Mary Irwin. Chapel entrance flanked by pedestrian entrance gates and with canted apse to east. Pitched slate roof, hipped to apse with limestone coping to gabled front elevation with stone cross to apex. Cut limestone walls with tooled limestone dressings. Paired lancet window and roundrel with hoodmoulding to front gabled elevation, bull's eye windows to side elevations. Pointed-arched door opening with chamfered limestone surround and timber battened door. Latin inscription to door surround with entrance accessed by limestone steps. Plaque to rear wall, obelisk, additional graves and a carved stone cross from the ruined church to rear of this site. Site enclosed by wrought-iron railings and with accessed by pedestrian gates supported by limestone piers.

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