St Feighin's Church Door (WM004-035003-)

3D Model

Early-medieval trabeate doorway with encircled cross-inscribed lintel in centre of west gable of Saint Feighin’s (Féichín/ little raven) Church, in the townland of Fore (Baile Fhobhair/town of the spring well), Co. Westmeath. Saint Féichín, was a 7th-century Irish saint, who died in 665 AD, he was the founder of the monastery at Fore also known as Féichín Fabair (Feighin’s Fore/Feighin’s Well). The doorway of the pre-11th century church also known in Irish as a damliac (stone church) stands in the centre of the west gable which has deep antae on both angles of the gable. The massive lintel above the doorway has an encircled equal-armed cross on both faces. An unusual lozenge shaped sunken carving is visible on the northern jamb-stone. There is a rebate for an internal wooden doorway visible on the inner face of the southern jamb-stones. The original pre-11th-century church measured internally 11.25m x 7.24m. The east gable of this church was removed when the church was extended in the 12th/13h-century.