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Freestanding Church of Ireland church, possibly c.1792 or c.1820, and rebuilt c.1840, having three-bay nave, two-stage square-plan tower, and two-bay gabled vestry to north elevation dated 1886. Built over crypt/basement, with stairwell adjacent to west side of vestry. Pitched natural slate roof to nave and vestry, having clay ridge tiles, cut-stone eaves courses and copings, and with cut and dressed sandstone octagonal-plan chimneystack to east gable. Vestry has projecting schist chimneybreast to north with ashlar sandstone quoins and stepped ashlar sandstone chimneystack. Tower has raised roughcast rendered parapet with cut-stone coping, cut-stone string course to base, and cut-stone pyramidal pinnacles to corners. Roughcast rendered walls to nave over projecting chamfered cut-stone plinth course. Cut-stone string course to tower between stages. Coursed schist walls to vestry with dressed sandstone quoins to corners, projecting chamfered cut-stone plinth, cut sandstone quatrefoil motif inset to chimneybreast, and with pointed-arch ashlar sandstone plaque to west elevation having roundel motif with raised star motif to centre with raised date '1886'. Pointed-arch window openings throughout, those to nave having dressed cut-stone surrounds and sills, and multiple-pane metal or leaded windows with intersecting tracery. Square cut-stone plaques under window openings to nave, having metal vents. Triple-light window opening to east gable, with cut-stone surround and sill and timber intersecting tracery and multiple-pane metal/leaded windows. Window opening in west face of tower set in pointed-arch recess at first stage level, with multiple-pane metal or leaded window; second stage/belfry level has timber louvered fittings. Paired square-headed window openings to east wall of vestry, set within paired pointed-arch window openings with chamfered ashlar sandstone surround and sill and leaded quarry-glazed windows. Pointed-arch doorways to north and south walls of tower, set in pointed-arch recesses, with cut-stone surrounds, replacement battened timber doors with wrought-iron hinges (reused?), and cut-stone thresholds. Shouldered doorway to east wall of vestry with chamfered ashlar sandstone surround, sandstone step and timber battened door with wrought-iron fittings. Set back from road to west of An Fál Carrach [Falcarragh], in graveyard having collection of grave-markers of mainly nineteenth and twentieth-century date; some within metal railed enclosures, obelisk memorial to sailors lost following sinking of HMS Wasp in 1884, Commonwealth war graves and memorial to Dutch sailors drowned in 1940. Mature woodland to boundary and lawned areas to site. Rubble stone boundary walls to site with field stone coping. Gateway to south has rendered square-plan piers with pyramidal caps and replacement metal gate. Possible pedestrian gateway to north/northwest (now obscured) formerly giving access to and from associated former rectory. Former schoolhouse adjacent to northeast (now obscured with vegetation).
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