Inver Church of Ireland Church

Remains of former Church of Ireland church, on rectangular-plan, built c. 1610, now ruinous and out of use (remained in use until 1807). Possibly containing fabric of earlier church or churches to site. Roof now collapsed, originally pitched thatch roof, later slated. Remains of chamfered cut stone eaves cornice, added c. 1750. Rubble stone construction with buttress to the north-west corner; walls now largely covered in ivy/vegetation. Cut stone plaque/memorial with carved coat of arms of Hume family and inscription reading ‘True to the End’ and dated 1751 to the north-west wall. Round-headed window openings to gable ends, now much denuded. Former openings to the north-west and south-east elevation now denuded and covered in vegetation. Round-headed doorway to the west end of the north wall, now blocked, having stone voussoirs to arch, remains of hoodmoulding, and with denuded carved stone head. Set back from road in an elevated site to the south-west of Inver and to the west of Mountcharles. Located on a bend at the mouth of the Eany Water River; site reached along causeway from the west. Graveyard to site having collection of recumbent, upstanding and table-type memorial monuments of mainly nineteenth-century date. Earliest legible memorial dated 1751. Graveyard surrounded by rubble stone boundary wall on irregular-plan, curving along with topography to the south-west, having rubble stone coping over. Gateway to the site comprising a pair of squared rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having capstones over, and having a pair of simple wrought-iron gates. Flight of cut stone steps from causeway adjacent to river up to gateway.