The Swallow Loft

Detached stone church ruin, built c. 1750. Adjacent to extended cottage to east. North transept gable and west nave gable survive, shrine built into west gable c. 1950. Single pointed-arch window opening to north transept gable. Five-bay single-storey cottage with attached two-storey building. Pitched artificial slate roofs, smooth rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods. Unpainted roughcast walling, raised quoins, smooth-rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, dressed stone sills, painted one-over-one timber sash windows c. 2000, timber casement windows to extension c. 2000. Square-headed door openings, painted timber vertically-sheeted door to south-facing porch. Both cottage and ruin are set back from road, dry stone boundary wall, Hooped wrought-iron garden gate, gravel courtyard, garden.

The surviving fragments of this church building are important social and historical reminders of the development of church building in Ireland.