Chapel

The National Monuments Service's description

Connected to the southwest corner of Dunsoghly castle (DU014-005001-) by a wall with entrance. The chapel is an oblong, single storey building. It is built of randomly coursed masonry with roughly dressed limestone quoins. Entrance is in the west end of north wall through round arched doorway which contains punch dressed jambs with double roll moulding and a hood moulding that terminates in a rosette and fleur-de-lis (int. dims. L 6.60m, W 4.40m). Sizeable crack from door to roof resulting in some water damage around door and arch and between wall and chapel. Above the door is an inscribed limestone tablet (DU014-005005-). Interior is lit by a double light window with semi-elliptical arches in the W gable, and blocked up rectangular window in the S wall alongside a pointed arch single light window with cusps and punch-dressed jambs. The southeast corner is slightly battered with remains of (blocked) round arched opening. Within the interior are wall presses in E and W end of N the wall (Tutty 1979, 32, 156).

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

Updated by: Christine Baker

Date of upload: 22 January 2015

References

Tutty, M.J. 1979 Dunsogley Castle and St. Margarets Well. Dublin Historical Record 32, 155-7.