Grave Yd. — Roolagh

Situated on a natural rise of ground overlooking the River Shannon to the W with a nearby castle (TN025-015) to the N. The poorly preserved remains of a rectangular late medieval parish church (TN025-016001) built with roughly coursed sandstone rubble. The E, S and W walls stand to full height with only the partial wall returns of the N wall surviving. The W end of the church may have had two floors as indicated by a destroyed window at first-floor level. There is also a single-light window at ground-floor level in this gable as well as a destroyed single-light window at the E end of the S wall. The E gable has a partially destroyed twin-light traceried window in the centre. The destroyed doorway at the W end of the S wall was described in the OS Letters as a pointed sandstone door (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 11-12). In the centre of the S wall is a segmental-arched tomb-niche and at the E end is a four-centred arched piscina with moulded bases, chamfered jambs and a six-lobed marigold pattern around the drain-hole. The graveyard around the church contains eighteenth- and nineteenth-century headstones. The top soil cover has been removed during a recent graveyard scheme. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008