Cooneen Old Church, Cooneen, Co Fermanagh

'Georgian vernacular' single-storey T-plan Roman Catholic Church, built c.1795, but possibly extended to create the T shape c.1810, with a small porch and vestry added post 1857, and several minor extensions of the 1950s. Deconsecrated c.1942, the building was used as a dance hall for some decades before being abandoned c.1985. Set in a rural location, it is located to the north of a road junction, with the ground immediately surrounding the building overgrown, and a tarmac-covered car park to south. To the west side of the car park is a single-storey school house of c.1840s, renovated c.2000 for use as a community centre. The building is T-plan with the upright of the T to the north. To the gable of this northern portion is a small gabled porch, whilst, to the centre of the south face of the horizontal section, there is a hipped-roof projection, formerly the vestry. To the west gable of the same section there is a 1950s porch lean-to, (with small concrete block addition of c.1970s), and set within the eastern intersection of the two main sections is a smaller lean-to of similar date, with another to the east side of the vestry. The walls are finished in lime based roughcast, with cut sandstone eaves courses which cross onto the gables. Some of the roughcast has fallen away to reveal rubble construction with squared stone quoins. The 1950's additions are largely cement rendered. The roof of the main T-shaped section is gabled and slated, with clay ridge tiles and stone parapets to the gables (two of which have cross finials). A significant central portion of the roof has collapsed. The vestry has a hipped roof covered as before, with a rendered chimneystack to the south side. The lean-to roofs are slated, except for that to the lean-to in the east intersection, which has a corrugated metal covering. The original main entrance is to the west side of the north porch, where there is a doorway with shallow pointed arch head, sheeted timber double door and overlight. The other doorways, to the vestry and western porch, are flat arch, with a plain sheeted timber door to that to the vestry. The window openings to the main body of the building are Georgian ratio with shallow pointed arch heads to those to the northern section and elliptical heads to those to the south (only one of which can now be seen in its entirety). All of these have stone cills and are filled with timber sash frames with multiple Georgian panes (12/10). The window openings to the projections are smaller with flat arch heads and the remains of various types of frames, sash and metal casement. One of the window openings to the west face of the northern portion has been lengthened to create a doorway.