St. Columba’s Roman Catholic Church — CROAGHAN (ROSNAKILL )

Freestanding double-height Catholic church, built c. 1780-5, comprising five-bay hall with slightly projecting breakfront to the centre of the south elevation having bellcote over, and with projecting single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the east side of breakfront to south elevation. Altered c. 1980 with single-storey additions including sacristy attached to the north-east corner. Pitched natural slate roof having raised smooth rendered parapets to gable ends (east and west) with smooth rounded rendered copings over and with smooth rendered kneeler stones at eaves level, projecting eaves course, and having painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to bellcote with rendered kneeler stone detail to eaves; round-headed opening with bellcote with bell metal bell. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course (to north and south elevations), and with rendered cornice stringcourse to bellcote. Quatrefoil motif with smooth rendered surround to the east gable end having date ‘1780’. Pointed arched window openings having multi-pane timber sliding sash windows with timber Y-tracery, diamond pane windows over ‘Y’ of Y-tracery, stone sills and smooth rendered surrounds. Pointed-arched window opening to the west gable having ashlar granite hoodmoulding. Pointed-arched doorway to porch having replacement battened timber double-doors with battened timber panel over, and with smooth rendered reveal. Pointed-arched door opening to the east gable end having replacement battened timber doors. Interior re-ordered c. 1980 having gallery to east supported on fluted columns and with timber parapet having inset trefoil-headed recesses, altar to west, timber pews and open timber king post roof with timber panelled ceiling finish. Located on elevated site on shores of Lagmore Bay to the north of Tamney, and to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula. Graveyard to set having collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century gravemarkers of mainly upstanding type; recumbent gravemarkers to the south end of graveyard. Roughcast rendered and modern rubble stone-clad boundary walls to graveyard. Wrought-iron and modern metal pedestrian gates\turnstiles to site.