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The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Present remains consists of thirteenth-century long nave and chancel to which two transepts, low crossing tower and chapel were added in sixteenth century. Built of mixed rubble with dressed granite jambs, windows and sedilia. Nave may incorporate thirteenth-century stonework. Two fonts within cathedral: (1) thirteenth-century, Kilkenny limestone, large square bowl with rounded arcades, standing on possibly modern drum-shaped base: (2) large square undecorated limestone basin, on drum-shaped base, two mid-sixteenth-century limestone memorial slabs. Limestone tomb table and end stone of another in nave. (Bradley 1989, 46-50)
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