• 1. Temple Finghin, Clonmacnoise, Offaly, Ireland
    S door
    Parish church
    A nave and chancel church with an attached round tower on the S side of the chancel (nave 8.8m x 4.39m; chancel 2.6m x 2.6m; internal diameter of tower 2.14m (Leask)). The nave walls are very low, the chancel is walled but roofless, the W wall and window are restored. Romanesque sculpture is found on the S doorway at the W end of the nave, the W window, chancel arch and E window.
  • 2. St Carthage, Rahan, Offaly, Ireland
    Chancel, general view
    church
    A nave and chancel church, with rebuilt nave. The church originally had northern and southern cells opening off a barrel-vaulted chancel with an upper chamber (of which the curved base of the vault springing remains). There is an entrance to a small staircase in the N wall at the E end of the chancel, with a slab with a Greek cross set over the lintel. There is a round-headed splayed window in the S wall at the E end of the chancel, and two round-headed niches in the N and S walls at the W end of the chancel. The large E window is modern, with reused 13thc. interior mouldings at the edge of the splay. The circular window in the E gable was probably reset in this position during the 1732 rebuilding.