CO. TYRONE, BALLYGAWLEY (NEAR), CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW (CI, ERRIGAL KEEROGUE PARISH)
Date:
1831
Nature:
New hall & tower church of 3 bays,built near site of old one at cost of £1,000 (Leslie) cf. Lewis who says this 'handsome edifice in the later English style, with an embattled tower' cost £1,300. Dedicated to St Matthew, 7 Sep 1832; 'probably by William Warren of Sligo' (Rowan).
Refs:
J.B. Leslie, Armagh Clergy & Parishes(1911), 300; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 120; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 126.
