Aghanagh Church — CUILSHEEGHARY MORE

Detached four-bay double-height Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Church of Ireland church, designed 1850; built 1850-3; dedicated 1853, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay double-height comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (south); single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch (east). "Enlarged", 1859, producing present composition. Pitched slate roofs, roll moulded clay ridge tiles, dragged cut-limestone coping to gables on "Cavetto"-detailed beaded kneelers including lichen-spotted dragged cut-limestone coping to gable to entrance (north) front on "Cavetto"-detailed beaded kneelers with buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing cast-iron bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch) with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, dragged cut-limestone coping to gables on "Cavetto"-detailed beaded kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Part repointed coursed or snecked rubble limestone walls on drag edged tooled cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with buttresses to corners including benchmark-inscribed diagonal buttresses to corners to entrance (north) front having drag edged tooled cut-limestone "slated" coping. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone mullions, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening (south) with dragged cut-limestone mullions, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Cusped lancet window openings ("cheeks") with drag edged tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening to entrance (north) front with dragged cut-limestone mullion, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch door opening (porch) with two cut-limestone steps, and drag edged tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing nailed timber boarded door. Set in landscaped grounds with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar chamfered piers to perimeter having lichen-spotted shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.