Carran Church, Poulacarran in The Burren |
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Carran Church, Poulacarran of the Diocese of Kilfenora in the Barony of Burren is a Parish church, measuring 56 by 20 feet circa 1500 situated at the end of the R480 near the junction with the R476 not far from the ruin of Leamanagh Castle. Leamanagh Castle was built in 1490 and is famous for the legend of Maire Rua who killed her husband. Carran Church is a good example of a medieval parish church which has a fine 15th Century richly moulded, pointed south door with a stoup in the right jamb. There remain an altar, an east window, a single pointed slit, two south windows (one defaced, one with ogee head), and three corbels at the east end of the north wall, which are carved with the faces of a king, a woman, and a warrior. The west gable had a bell chamber, and there is a machicolation at the north-west corner. South of Carran church is a small cairn, round which coffins are carried, and which probably gives the place its name. An upper storey at the west end may have been used as a fortified residence. The Well of Tobermacreagh lies to south. |
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