Discover Alone, back to main map

Rockcorry Presbyterian Church

Church/chapel

What do you know about this place?

What you write will be public.

What is recorded here

Rockcorry Presbyterian Church in Boyher has pointed windows, a pointed doorway and one round window high above them. After all that upright behaviour, the building has put on a monocle. Your late arrival has been observed.
Freestanding gable-fronted five-bay Presbyterian church, dated 1830, and having similarly detailed hall recessed to north side. Pitched slate roof to gable-front (east) and hipped to west gable, with cast-iron rainwater goods, and cut-stone eaves course. Red brick chimneystack to west gable. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to gables and exposed rubble stone to long elevations, having painted stone quoins to gable-front and sandstone quoins to west gable. Pointed arch window openings with cut limestone surrounds and sills, with projecting keystones to south elevation and replacement render surrounds and sills to north elevation, painted stone surrounds to gable-front, with quarry glazed windows throughout. Oculus window to gable-front apex. Pointed arch door opening to gable-front having painted stone surround with inscribed date 'AD 1830' to keystone, double-leaf timber battened door with quarry glazed overlight. Interior has simple aisled layout with stained timber pulpit and furniture to west end, wall to back of which has render hood-moulding detail, smooth rendered ceiling and walls, with wainscoting to lower level of walls, and stained timber pews. Marble and brass plaques to nave. Hall has pitched slate roof, rendered walls with render plinth and quoins, pointed arch doorway flanked by pointed-arch windows, with render surrounds, and with oculus to apex having render surround. Chamfered square-plan painted stone gate piers to front boundary with cut-stone pyramidal caps, double-leaf wrought-iron gates, and rubble stone boundary wall with concrete coping. Lawn and path to front of building.
Rockcorry Presbyterian church is a simple structure that retains its original form and plain detailing. It provides a typical illustration of Non-conformist churches built in Ireland at that time. The regularly proportioned elevations are enlivened by the pointed arch door and window openings and an oculus window to the structure's front apex.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41306010

This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.

Places near here

Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection , a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library. View image on Flickr View all images from book View catalogue entry for book ., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • D Gore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Enda O Flaherty, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

More historic places in County Monaghan · All of County Monaghan

Add to this placeAdd a picture Add a detailed tip Add a story

Explore the map1,118,478 places to discover