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Dunlewy Church (Tullaghobegly) — Dún Lúiche [Dunlewy]

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Dunlewy Church (Tullaghobegly) — Dún Lúiche [Dunlewy]
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Freestanding Church of Ireland chapel of ease, built c.1853, having four-bay nave, single-bay chancel, and three-stage entrance tower to west end. Pitched roof, un-roofed 1955, having limestone eaves course and ashlar copings to gables. Moulded parapet to tower, having ashlar corner finials with gablet detail. Squared and snecked tooled and dressed white marble walls, with projecting ashlar limestone plinth course and diagonally set grey limestone buttresses to corners of building with ashlar skews. Ashlar limestone plinth and string courses to tower, and ashlar cornice with moulded inset. Pointed-arch window openings, formerly multiple-light to east window, with chamfered limestone surrounds, integral sills and remains of cast-iron lattice windows. Tower has pointed-arch chamfered limestone doorway to ground stage, oculus to second stage and pointed-arch window opening to top stage, with chamfered cut-stone surrounds and hood-mouldings. Interior has remains of lined-and-ruled rendered walls and gravel floor. Building overlooks Loch Dhún Lúiche [Dunlewy Lough] with graveyard to southwest and quartzite rubble stone boundary wall with tooled ashlar limestone piers and wrought-iron double-leaf gate.

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