Teach Pobail Naomh Cróine [Saint Crone's Catholic Church] — Árainn Mhór [Aran Island]

Freestanding cruciform-plan Catholic church, built c.1825, having two-bay transepts, and extended c.1917 to provide three-bay nave to west with lean-to porch to west end of north side, and shallow projecting single-bay sacristy to east. Pitched artificial slate roofs having raised rendered verges to gable ends with moulded kneeler stones at eaves level, Celtic cross finials to transept gables and to west end of nave, and with smooth-rendered chimneystack to east gable of sacristy. Roughcast-rendered walls over smooth-rendered plinth course. Pointed-arch openings to nave and transepts, with raised smooth-rendered block-and-start surrounds, chamfered sills and mainly figurative leaded stained-glass windows. Shallow segmental-headed window openings to east elevation of sacristy with smooth-rendered block-and-start surrounds, chamfered reveals and sills and replacement windows (formerly four-over-four pane timber sliding sash). Pointed-arch doorways to east elevation of north transept and east face of porch, having smooth-rendered block-and-start surrounds and replacement timber door and double-leaf door. Square-headed doorway to north side of sacristy, having smooth-rendered block-and-start surround and replacement timber door. Interior re-ordered c.1980 and has memorial to Arranmore Disaster of 1935 and carved timber Stations of the Cross. Church in own grounds overlooking Ros na hUilleann [Rossillion Bay] bounded by rubble stone boundary wall with lawns. Parochial house to southwest, built 1908. Cast-iron bell on hilltop to west. Marian shrine with cement-rendered walls to northwest. Cut-stone Celtic cross gravemarker to east of sacristy to Rev. John McIntrye (1880-1952). Granite memorial inscribed 'St Crone's Church Arranmore. Built 1825. Ext. 1917'. Gateway to northeast comprising smooth-rendered piers with recent metal gate, and pedestrian turnstile to west. Associated graveyard located on rocky promontory to east, having mainly upstanding twentieth-century gravemarkers, including some British Commonwealth graves.