St Ruadhans Church (TN004-010008-) South Door3D Model
National Monument No. 673. Stone church dedicated to St. Ruadhán who died in 584 and was referred to as the ‘lamp of Lothra’, his feastday was held on the 15th of April when the ‘cuckoo began to call’. In the Annals of Innisfallen under the year AD 1037 it is recorded that ‘Cu Chaille, son of Cennetaig, King of Musgraige, with his son was slain in front of the stone church at Lorrha after he had been taken from the altar’. The church consists of a rectangular building (ext. dims. 11.1m N-S x 18.3m E-W) with projecting antae at both ends constructed with roughly coursed cyclopean masonry. The west end of the church was converted into a two-storey priest’s residence by the insertion of a barrel-vaulted ground floor. At the west end of the south wall there is a 15th-century pointed doorway. Over the existing doorway are the remains of an earlier arch with a carved head at its apex along with capitals and foliage decoration of late twelfth/early thirteenth-century date.
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