Saint Patrick's Catholic Oratory

Detached four-bay single-storey Catholic oratory, designed 1904; built 1904-5; dated 1905, on a rectangular plan originally four-bay single-storey single-cell. Extended, 1962, producing present composition. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles with Cross finial to apex (west), and no rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Round-headed "Trinity Window" (east) with concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on stained glass roundels. Square-headed door opening in round-headed recess (west) with concealed dressings having stepped reveals framing timber door. Full-height interior with exposed round arch braced collared steel roof construction. Set on outcrop.

An oratory erected by Walter Heneghan (d. 1913) of Louisburgh to designs (1904) by William Henry Byrne and Son (formed 1902) of Suffolk Street, Dublin, representing an integral component of the ecclesiastical heritage of County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition, one succeeding 'a chapel built of loose stones' (Lewis 1837 II, 97), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear "barn" plan form; the slender profile of the openings underpinning a restrained Romanesque theme; and the gabled roofline.