Fahan Catholic Church — CASTLEQUARTER (FAHAN)

Freestanding gable-fronted five-bay nave Catholic church, built in 1833 or c. 1860, with two-bay single-storey sacristy to east, and breakfront to north gable. Modified c. 1970 and c. 2000. Pitched natural slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, smooth rendered eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and cross finial to north. Smooth rendered walls and plinth course. Pointed-arch headed window openings with Y-tracery mullions, with leaded coloured glass windows, and sloping ashlar sills. Triangular-headed door opening with smooth rendered chamfered surround and replacement timber double doors with glazed sidelights and overlights. Modernised interior with plaster walls and ceiling with exposed timber trusses, timber altar with and timber panelling to rear of altar. Set within own grounds with graveyard with eighteenth and nineteenth century headstones, some with cast-iron and wrought-iron surrounds. Cast-iron gateway with squared-rubble piers with ashlar pyramidal coping; random rubble boundary wall with smooth rendered saddle-back coping. Detached three-bay two-storey Parochial House to south-west , dated 1860, comprising pitched natural slate roof and smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls, with date stone inscribed ‘ ERECTED BY THE REVD BMcELDOWNY AD 1860’.