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- 1. St Patrick, Ballintober, Mayo, Ireland
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Abbey Church A large cruciform, aisleless early 13thc. church standing next to the abbey ruins (W wall of nave to E wall of chancel 40.23m, w. across transepts 22.86 m). The rebuilt chapter house and sacristy survive and are also early 13thc. while the remains of the cloister and domestic buildings are mainly 15thc. The church has a vaulted chancel with a chamber above and two barrel-vaulted chapels in each transept, the inner round-headed and the outer pointed and rather taller. The sacristy adjoins the south transept and abuts onto a small chamber, accessible from the cloister walk. The chapter house is attached to the sacristy. A 17thc. chapel adjoins the chancel on the S. The nave was rebuilt in 1270. Plain round-headed doorways are found in the N wall of the N transept and N and S side of nave (all reconstructed in 1965-6). The plain sacristy doorway and the doorway to the storeroom in the E cloister range are original. This doorway is round-headed and of three plain chamfered orders, the first order with a tympanum and the others continuous. There are plain round-headed windows at clerestorey level (one on S two on N); one in the E wall of each transept chapel, with a small rectangular window above; and two, one above the other, over the triple window on the E face, the upper being rectangular. There are a number of narrow round-headed windows to the chapter house, some reconstructed. Romanesque sculpture is found on the corbels of the crossing, the chancel vaulting and E window, the W door of the chapter house, a reset corbel and a mortar (used as a font).
- 2. Cong, Mayo, Ireland
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Abbey ruins The church comprises a chancel (w. c.8.00 m ), mainly 13thc. and an aisleless 15thc. nave. Of the original conventual buildings the sacristy, adjoining chamber and the W wall of the E range survive. There is a sealed chamber on the far S of the E range which is also 13thc. Part of the original 13thc. cloister arcading survives, but most is a replacement of c.1860 from a restoration led by Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness. Most other surviving features are 15thc. or later.
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