The W gable has a fine Romanesque doorway arranged in three orders with a tympanum, and surrounded by a hood-moulding which is decorated with bosses on the chamfer and terminates in two large beast-heads. The outer order consists of lateral chevron with a single human mask on the keystone. The jambs of this order are half-round columns. The second arch order is made up of frontal chevron, while the inner order is unadorned. The surface of the tympanum is decorated with a badly eroded, sculpted human head, flanked on either side by two small blocks of sandstone decorated with bosses. There is a door-bar hole in the N jamb and a spud-stone on the S side. There is also a large stone threshold at the entrance, part of which is a reused large quernstone or spudstone. Above the doorway, in the apex of the gable, there is a triangular-headed window with external rebate and immediately above the apex there is a carved stone with two figures greeting each other, supposedly St Moling and St Fiachra
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