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All Saints, COOTEHILL, Church of Ireland
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COOTEHILL, Co. Cavan, Ireland
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An impressively sited church that closes the vista of Cootehill's main street, with the wide and stocky crennellated tower and flanking vestries creating a substantial entrance that is lent impressive vertical emphasis by the slender cut stone spire. The church is built in a muscular Gothic, without the spikeness introduced in the 1830s. The timber tracery windows with Late Gothic forms and coloured glass is an important feature. The plain interior is a typical of an estate church, here however it also serves the town community. It was built inside the demesne walls of Bellamont Forest House to replace a early eighteenth century church on Church Street where a graveyard survives. It was possibly built to designs of Francis Johnston (1760-1829). The transept and refurnishment by Welland & Gillespie and the elaborate font dated to 1901 by Thomas Deane (1792-1871) are notable later features and additions which add to its historic character.
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In 1868, the parish of Drumgoon contained the following places:
"DRUMGOON, a parish in the baronies of Clonkee and Tullygarvey, in the county of Cavan, province of Ulster, Ireland. Cootehill, in this parish, is its post town. It is situated on the road from Kingscourt to Clones. The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Kilmore, value £814, in the patronage of the Rev. J. K. Darley, LL.D. The church, which is a fine building, is at Cootehill. It was rebuilt in 1817 by means of a loan from the late Board of First Fruits, from which source also was erected a chapel-of-ease, about 4 miles from the church. Here are three Roman Catholic chapels (united), and meeting-houses for Presbyterians, Moravians, Wesleyans, and Quakers. There are seven schools assisted by the London Hibernian Society, one by the National Board, and two by the Kildare Place Society, besides several others. Bellamont Forest is the principal residence, and stands on the shores of a picturesque lake, near Lord Cremorne's. Lead-ore and slate are abundant. Linen weaving was formerly extensively carried on. Several Danish mounds are to be met with in the parish."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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