The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Castle
A late medieval castle, housing an Archaeology Centre. Two loose fragments displayed in the castle bear 12thc. sculpture; (i) was discovered in rubble outside Dysert O'Dea churchyard in 1985 and (ii) was found in the churchyard at Rathblathmaic.
Parish church
The church consists of nave and chancel, 21.64m x 7.24m and 6.4m x 7.26m (see plan in Westropp 1900a, 416), both now roofless. The S nave wall is in line with the S chancel wall as far as a projection to W of S doorway, and appears to have been rebuilt to the N of an original line incorporating some stones with angle roll and fillet. The chancel arch is therefore not central in relation to the nave. The chancel arch is plain and of a single square order on slightly inclined jambs with chamfered impost blocks. The base of the E wall seems 12thc. (and in its original location) and retains some corner stones with angle rolls in the two lower courses on the NE corner and the third course on the SE corner. The N nave wall is extensively rebuilt, especially at the W end, and has a later Gothic window at the E end. The W wall is totally rebuilt. The chancel has three pointed E windows with plain chamfered mouldings on the exterior. The gable over the chancel arch has a belfry. The major Romanesque decoration of the church consists of the limestone S doorway (rebuilt, not in its original location) and the W window (rebuilt from fragments of a number of windows). There is a round tower near the NW corner of the church, and a 12thc. high cross in the field to the E of the church.
Church (ruin)
The church consists of a nave measuring 17.5 x 5.6 m internally, with walls of rough uncoursed limestone and ashlar quoins. It is roofless, but the walls are intact and the W wall and doorway restored. A small mortuary was added to the E of the church in 1667. There is a flat-headed door on the N side, a 15thc. door on the S side, and windows at the E end of the N and S walls. The W door incorporates reused Romanesque stones and the E window is Romanesque, both probably built into a later medieval church.
Church (ruin)
A carved stone has been reset in the S wall of the disused church, near the join between the roofless section at the W end and the roofed E section. The carved stone is evidently not part of the original masonry.
Ruined church, formerly Arroasian priory
Ruined priory church with a cloister to the S and some remains of monastic buildings. The chancel and parts of the W end of the nave remain. There is Romanesque sculpture on the label inside the window in the S chancel wall, and on a number of loose fragments, possibly jamb stones from the chancel arch.
Parish church, formerly Irish monastic house
The church has a nave and chancel, 9.29 m x 6.1 and 4.44m x 3.81m respectively (Westropp, Leask). The nave has antae at both E and W ends. The chancel contains a stone altar. There is a round tower SW of the church. Romanesque sculpture is found in the W doorway, on the chancel corbel table, the S windows, the chancel arch and altar, and on two crosses set against the N wall of the nave. The W doorway was reconstructed in 1979-80, and the nave has recently been re-roofed.
Cathedral, former
Situated c. 24 m E of the round tower, the cathedral has a simple rectangular plan measuring c. 20.80 m x 8.40 m, incorporating the side walls and W end and part of the E wall of an earlier church (Westropp, 1897). The antae and trabeated W doorway with inclined jambs survive from this early church; the upper walls and E gable were rebuilt in the later medieval period. There are later medieval doors in the N and S walls near the W end of the nave, and three Gothic windows in the S wall. A later sacristy (8.10 m x 3.00 m) is attached to the N wall.
Parish church
Ruinous, with N and S walls of nave, S wall of chancel and chancel arch remaining.
Exterior angle shaft on SE corner of nave. Plain
pointed chancel arch. W gable
and N and E walls of chancel missing. Some stones from
a round tower (demolished in 1838) remain on site, and these and various carved
and moulded stones from 12thc. church are reused in walls of church and
graveyard enclosure. Nave and chancel, 13.05 m x 7.52 m
and 5.58 m x 6.09 m (Westropp).
Parish church
Located beside the road from Corofin to Kilfenora, with the stump of a round tower to the N of the church. Only the W wall and parts of adjacent side walls are medieval. The W wall has antae which terminate four or five courses below the top of the side walls. There is a round-headed S doorway with a chamfered soffit roll, over which is a Sheela-na-gig. Nave dimensions c. 21 m x 6.9 m approx. (Westropp 1900).