Patrick Kavanagh Centre — Inishkeen

Free-standing single-cell Roman Catholic Church, built c.1820, with five-bay nave, square-plan three-stage bell tower to north, and late nineteenth-century sacristy to west. Faces north. Now in use as cultural centre. Pitched slate roof having tooled limestone copings, with cross finial to south gable. Cast-iron rainwater goods to south elevation of tower, replacement uPVC rainwater goods to remainder of building. Roughcast rendered walls having rendered plinth eaves courses. Rendered string course to bell tower with parapet of crenellations and pinnacles. Pointed-arch window openings with painted moulded stone reveals and painted sills, five bays to east having Y-tracery stained-glass windows, one bay to south and two bays to west having stained glass depicting Our Lady and Saint Daig, patron saint of Inishkeen. Intrusive square-headed door opening to centre of east elevation, with double-leaf timber panelled doors covered by projecting slated canopy, supported by timber brackets. Square-headed door opening to east elevation of tower. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to north and south of sacristy. Timber pointed-arch vaulting to interior of church, with modern galleries at first floor level to north and south, accessed via recent timber stairs at west. Exhibition space at ground floor level utilized as stage for productions of Kavanagh’s works. Timber pulpit over entrance at east over stained-glass screen. Nineteenth-century black and red tiling to exists. Church set back from road with graveyard to east, south and most recently expanded to west. Rendered stone wall to north of site with square plan gate piers and wrought-iron pedestrian gate.