Situated on level ground overlooking the valley of the Glenealo River to the S and the Lower Lake to the SW. 'Our Lady's' or 'St Mary's' church, which has been partly restored, is located within a square enclosure on raised level ground W of the main graveyard (WI023-028005-). It may have been built for use by women or nuns. It was originally a single-celled structure (dims. L 9.9m; Wth 6.2m) but a chancel (dims. L 6.3m; Wth 5.5m) and a N door were added in the twelfth century. The lower coursing is of large blocks of mica schist and granite. The W door has inclined jambs and is lintelled, with an early form of architrave on the exterior and an incised saltire cross on the soffit. The nave is lit by a round-headed window in the S wall with a small hood-moulding while a similar window in the E gable has hood-moulding decorated with a key pattern, terminating in worn animal heads. There are two decorated cross-slabs in the chancel and a number of rude crosses and cross-slabs in the graveyard (Leask 1950, Fig. 4 a-f, 42). At the E end of the chancel on a rectangular pile of stones is a subcircular bullaun stone with a single basin (Healy 1972, 116). (Leask 1950, 14-16; 1977, 74) SMR No.: WI023-003001-

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Spatial	St Marys Church, Glendalough
Protection Type	National Monuments in State Care
Start Date	400
End Date	800
Period Name	Early Christian Period
Materials	Granite, Stone
Heritage Asset Type	Church