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Abandoned Ireland – Tarquin Blake on St Mary’s
In 2015, Tarquin Blake published a book “Abandoned Churches of Ireland” – click on the image below to see the book’s website. The book contains some notes on St Mary’s Clonmethan. We will not reproduce the comments in full here (lest we break copyright), but some words from the book give us some insights in […]
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and Rev Aldhouse
As you may have seen on some earlier posts, Rev F H Aldhouse was the last rector at St . Mary’s Clonmethan. It seems we – the Friends of Clonmethan – shared a common interest with him. Rev Aldhouse was a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, a society whose mission is […]
Photos of old abandoned churches
Here is a link to an article in Journal.ie from a few years ago showing some old churches around Ireland. Our church has been in a worse state than some of those shown, br great work has been done and fingers crossed, one day it may be restored to its former self.
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