First Castleblayney Presbyterian Church

Freestanding gable-fronted Presbyterian church with Gothic detailing, dated 1787, remodelled 1930 by John Francis McGahon of Dundalk, having three-bay nave with single-storey flat-roofed minister’s room (1930) to rear (west). Pitched natural slate roof, half-hipped to rear, blue-black angled clay ridge and hip tiles, half-round metal gutters, stone finial gable, oval slate date plaque inscribed '1787/Revd. John Davys'. Roughcast rendered walling, smooth rendered plinth, quoins, and minister’s room. Pointed-arch cast-iron Y-tracery diagonally glazed windows with stained margins and quatrefoil to spandrels. Geometric tracery to east window over entrance door with moulded string course continued as hood-moulding, with concrete sills throughout. Pointed-arch timber double-leaf doors. Interior having partially timber-panelled lobby with timber dog-leg stairs leading to first floor gallery and meeting room. Church hall having two aisles, painted plastered walls and ceiling, wall-mounted carved stone memorials, carved timber pulpit and balcony on pair of cast-iron columns. Set back from road by roughcast plinth walls and cast-iron gates hinged to square pillars. Situated in elevated graveyard site, addressed by central flights of granite steps. Nearby lecture hall, built 1892 by John Harvey of Castleblayney.