Saint Colman's Church (Clontibret)

Freestanding gable-fronted Church of Ireland church, built 1840-2, comprising single-bay nave with gabled porch to gable-front, and vestry to south-east corner. Pitched natural slate roof, with dressed limestone copings, cast-iron rainwater goods, and twin octagonal-plan ashlar finials to apex of east gable. Rendered walls having dressed stone plinth, and with string course to gables at eaves level, and diagonal ashlar buttresses to nave corner. Pinnacled bell-cote containing bronze bell to gable-front. Ashlar walls to porch, having triangulated parapet. Chamfered dresssed limestone surrounds to all windows. Lancet windows to nave side walls and to gable-front and porch, with Y-tracery frames, double-light to nave side walls and Tudor-arch with four-light window to east gable, some windows having original stained glass, some replacement clear glass. Latticed window to front of porch, and blind openings to side walls, latter with hood-mouldings. Pointed-arch doorway to south side of porch, with double-leaf timber panelled door. Interior has Tudor-arch braced timber tie-beam trusses with decoratively-carved pendants. Smooth rendered walls, tongue-and-groove panelling to height of pews. Gallery to west end with organ, supported by quatrefoil-plan compound columns. Carved wooden pulpit to north-east corner, plain timber altar with pointed arcade to centre of east end, flanked by cast-iron communion rails. Pews to nave, baptismal font to west end and memorial plaques to walls of nave. Set in graveyard with coursed rubble boundary wall, having limestone coping and wrought-iron gate to main entrance at west. Ruin of sixteenth/early seventeenth-century church to south, and late eighteenth-century school-house to south at crossroads.