Derry Churches, Cloughey Road, Derry, Portaferry, Co Down

Ruins of two small churches set parallel to each other on top of a small rise, one and a half miles to the north east of the town of Portaferry. The ruins of each building are set roughly 7m apart with that to the north much larger (c.12m x 5.5m) than that to south (c.6.5m x 4m) but more remains of the smaller building including a large portion of the east gable and side walls. The smaller church was constructed in neat flat rubble whilst that to north is made up of much more irregular large boulders, with both structures bonded originally in clay with traces of lime to window opening in south building, but both now recently re-bonded with mortar. There is a small opening roughly 1m above ground level in the remaining gable of the south church, with evidence of similar opening in remnants of east gable in north church, with further evidence of an entrance in the south elevation of the church to the north, whilst its neighbour has the remains of a doorway in its west gable. Entire complex surrounded by low rubble wall. Several small ‘beam’ holes (c.30cm square) in walls of southern church. South church has remnants of projecting ‘antae’ at both gables.