placenamesCorraneary
Corr an Aoire
An eighteenth-century church preserves a gallery, timber pews and an octagonal pulpit.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Corr an Aoire · Irish · main form · validated name
- Corraneary · English · main form
Place & story
The Presbyterian church
Corraneary Presbyterian Church is a late eighteenth-century landmark at Roosky. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates the present building to 1791 and records that it was reroofed in 1848. Its rectangular, single-cell plan and tall lancet windows give the modest building a Gothic character. [2]
Inside the meeting house
A gallery at the eastern end rests on paired pillars. Timber pews flank the central aisle, which leads towards an octagonal Gothic-style pulpit at the western end. A boarded vaulted ceiling spans the interior. Outside, wrought-iron gates mark the entrance from the road. These features retain the arrangement of a compact rural Presbyterian meeting house. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Clankee
- Civil parish
- Knockbride
- Within
- Corraneary
- Coordinates
- 53.99024, -7.02415 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412185 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Corraneary. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Corraneary Presbyterian Church, Roosky, record40402313 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Corraneary Presbyterian Church illustration: based on a Corraneary Presbyterian Church by Eric Jones. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.