Saint Senan's Catholic Church, CLOONLARA, Cloonlara, CLARE

Description

Freestanding gable-fronted double-height Roman Catholic church, built 1870, with single-bay three-stage tower and spire to right hand side, four-bay side elevations and polygonal apse to rear. Pitched slate roof with cut-stone gable copings, cross finials and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut-limestone broach spire. Squared rubble stone walls with cut-stone corner buttresses. Cut-stone plinth, string course and scalloped eaves course to tower. Lancet openings with cut-stone dressing and cast-iron quarry glazing having horizontal pivot windows. Pointed arch opening with timber matchboard double leaf doors, flanked by lancet windows, having continuous hood mouldings above. Pointed arch opening to entrance gable with triple lancets and carved hood moulding. Retaining interior features.