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- 1. Clonkeen, Limerick, Ireland
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Parish church Small rectangular church with antae at E and W end. (Internal measurements 14.6 m x 5.5 m). Roofless, but with walls fairly well preserved. The W part of the church, incorporating the N window and the fine W doorway is Romanesque, built of roughly coursed large stones, mostly sandstone. The E end was probably rebuilt in the 15thc. of thinner courses of grey limestone with late Gothic windows in the E and S walls.
- 2. St Mary, Limerick,
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Cathedral church The four-bay aisled nave, crossing, and parts of the transept and chancel survive from the original 12thc. building. These are surrounded by later medieval work in the chancel, transepts and chapels flanking the nave, with post-medieval additions to the N and S of the chancel. The nave has square piers with pointed arches, surmounted by a round-headed clerestory with a wall passage; there are five clerestory windows in N and S walls, set over the piers, and the centre of the arches in the three E bays. There is a tower over the W bay, with a similar window and wall passage; the W wall has three narrow pointed lancets, the centre lancet taller than the side lancets, with a wall passage at the base. The W tower arch has been inserted inside the original piers of the W bay. Sculpture is found on the W doorway (Drastically restored in 1895, when only the label and innermost order remained), on the capitals of the nave arcades and on corbels in the aisles.
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