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Saint Patrick's Catholic Church in Killadangan

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Saint Patrick's Catholic Church in Killadangan
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Freestanding T-plan gable-fronted Catholic church, dated 1859, with two-bay side elevations to nave, single-bay transepts and modern two-bay single-storey lean-to sacristy to northwest elevation. Pitched artificial slate roofs with stone bellcote and cross to front and cross finials to other gables. Front gable of snecked limestone with skew vertical joints and stone plinth. Diagonal buttresses with pinnacles to all corners. Rendered walls elsewhere, with buttresses to nave. Cut-stone date plaque over entrance. Pointed-arch openings with chamfered limestone surrounds with hood-mouldings. Coloured and stained-glass windows and timber battened doors. Marble reredos to altar end. Snecked limestone boundary wall with cut-stone piers and cast-iron gate.
Saint Patrick's Church is enhanced by many artistic and architectural features such as the diagonal buttresses, hood mouldings and coloured and stained glass. Located at the south end of the village of Puckaun, the church occupies a dominant location in the surrounding landscape when seen from the southern approach road.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22401411

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; dougf, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; David P Howard, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; P L Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Jonjobaker, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; David P Howard, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

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