Church

The National Monuments Service's description

The medieval parish church of Old Connaught stands in a burial ground outside the village of Old Connaught. It survives to full height with E gable and single bellcote over W gable. It is built of random granite and sandstone masonry with dressed granite quoins (int. dims. L 10.2m, Wth 5.8m). The entrance is located at the W end of S wall. D'Alton (1976, 457) writing in 1838 describes a round-arched opening in this wall. There is no internal division between nave and chancel. The interior is lit by a lancet window in the E gable with dressed granite quoins and a single slit ope in the W wall. There are square-headed opes in the N and S side walls. The S wall contains granite faced niches at either end of the wall. There are 19th-20th century memorials within the graveyard (Anon 1900, 187; Ball 1902, 120: Turner 1983, 47).

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.

Revised upload on: 21 April 2018.

References

D'Alton, J. 1838 (Reprint 1976) The history of the county of Dublin. Cork. Tower Books.

Ball, E.F. 1902 Rathmichael and its neighbourhood. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 32, 113-27.

Turner, K. 1983 If you seek monuments: a guide to the antiquities of the barony of Rathdown. Rathmichael Historical Society.

Anon. 1900 Proceedings. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 10, no. 4, 388-450.