What is recorded here

St Patrick’s church stands in County Carlow with a rectangular granite nave, a smaller stone chancel and a blocked southern entrance. It keeps a broken polygonal font and a shallow bullaun basin inside the main room. The round tower is absent, leaving only the church and its graveyard boundary to mark the sacred site.

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 revision: 16 December 2009 Revised by: J. Farrelly In the S sector of the graveyard (CW008-038006-), the S wall of the church forming the S boundary of the graveyard. Dedicated to St Patrick (OSL 1839, 11-15, 100-1). Church consists of rectangular structure of large, uncoursed mortared granite boulders (min. L 14m; Wth 5.6m), subsequently enlarged and modified by removing and replacing wall at N to give width of 6.4m, adding chancel of small granite stones (min. L 5.3m; Wth c. 3.9m), and large round ashlar chancel arch. Blocked round-arched entrance in S wall of nave. Small piscina in S wall. Lying within nave are (1) large fragment of finely dressed polygonal font, (2) single basin bullaun (diam. 0.3m D 0.2m). No trace of round tower. (JKAS 1933, 271-7; JAPMD 1902, 148)

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