The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Clare (pre-1974 traditional (Republic of Ireland))
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.
Parish church
A small church of irregular oblong plan, 17.8m x 7.26m at the E end narrowing to 6.55m at
the W (Westropp 1900a, 443), with a plain lintelled doorway in the N wall. The W gable has fallen. The E gable is ivy
covered, and has a round-headed two-light window with roll
mouldings on the exterior. There are two windows in the S wall, the E one covered in
ivy, the W one (with the archstone now fallen and lying on the ground) round-headed with
a wide interior splay and a chamfer and
roll moulding on the exterior. There are two carved corbels in the S wall, but their condition is too eroded to enable
their date to be established.
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).
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
A small rectangular single cell church, 5.9 m x 3.6 m, situated within a walled enclosure. Romanesque sculpture is found in the W doorway and set into the gable above. The entrance of the enclosure to the S of the church also bears shallow mouldings formed by incised lines on its inside face.
Parish church
The church consists of nave and chancel, 16.15 m
x 6.55 m and 8.53 m x 6.4 m respectively (Westropp). The W wall and W end of
the nave are in ruins with only the lower walls remaining. The E end is
standing but is heavily overgrown with ivy. There are 12thc. windows in the E
and S walls of the chancel, these are tall and narrow
with a wide splay on the interior. The S window of the
chancel is round-headed with a broad hollow
chamfer on the exterior. The E window has a simple
chamfer on the exterior. There are two later medieval
windows in the S wall of the nave. The chancel arch has
a plain square arch of one order, with a slight
arris
roll on the jambs. There
is a late Romanesque S doorway at the W end of the nave.
Parish church
Late medieval nave and chancel church
incorporating earlier E gable. There is a small
quadrangular window in the N wall and three narrow lancets and a defaced
pointed doorway in the S wall. In 1839 a high enclosure is recorded running
from N to S along this wall with a doorway in the S, nothing of this now
remains. The E window of the church appears to be late Romanesque.
Parish church
A ruined church 15.8 m x 5.48 m (Westropp). An Early Christian church site, with 15thc additions to church. There is a holy well in a field to the SW of the church. Romanesque sculpture is found on a loose stone propped up against the wall of the well.
Parish church
A small roofless oratory approx. 6.65 m x 3.91 m (Westropp), with
gables and side walls intact. The lower walls contain
large limestone blocks; the quoins are rounded at the
angle and some have a slight arris
roll. A number of heads and corbels
are set into the walls. The original W doorway is blocked with rubble masonry,
and a later medieval doorway is inserted into the N wall. Romanesque sculpture
is found on the W doorway to the nave, in the E gable
window, on a head set above the N doorway, and on various corbels. There is also a plain font. Near the oratory are two
house-shaped shrines or tombs, constructed of stone slabs.
Augustinian house, former
Single-aisled church and monastic buildings with cloister. In the S wall of the nave are a plain round-headed doorway with a single square order and a window with two plain chamfered orders externally. The church has no Romanesque sculpture.