fenagh churches

Two churches stand on the site of an earlier monastery. The south church has a fine pointed west doorway and a beautiful 14th or 15th century east window. Note the string course with rolled moulding beneath the outside of the window. The north church was probably built in the 15th century, but replaces and partly uses the stones of a pre-Norman church. Both churches have the western part roofed with a vault, above which was a gallery.

Other buildings and various earthworks are presumably part of the medieval monastery. The old monastery was founded by St. Cailin, and it seems to have continued in use until the Dissolution in 1541. It was burned in 1360, and was known to have had a house of public hospitality in 1447.