Teach Pobail Cholmcille Naofa [Saint Columbkille's Catholic Church] — Oileán Thoraí [Tory Island]

Freestanding Catholic church, built 1857-61, comprising two-bay hall with later lean-to sacristy attached to northeast corner. Pitched natural slate roof with raised smooth rendered copings to gable ends (north and south), smooth rendered or cut-stone Celtic cross finials to gable apexes and surviving elements of cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered rubble stone walls. Pointed-arch window openings to east and west elevations of nave, with smooth rendered reveals and recent leaded stained-glass windows. Single pointed-arch window opening to gables with smooth-rendered reveals, triple-light windows with moulded stone tracery, narrow slate sills and figurative leaded stained glass. Pointed-arch doorway to southeast corner of nave with smooth-rendered reveals and recent battened timber door. Painted inscription over doorway reads "Teach Pobail Naomh Colmcille/Rinneadh i 1857/Cóirighthe i 1927" [Saint Colmcille's Church, built in 1857, renovated in 1927]. Interior has carved timber altar and altar rail, marble reredos, timber tongue-and-grooved ceiling, timber board floor and carved timber pews. Set back from road in own grounds to west end of Baile Thiar [West Town]. Graveyard to site with collection of grave-markers, dating mainly from second half of twentieth century. Site surrounded by rendered boundary wall with modern gateway to south.